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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences. – Miguel de Cervantes

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In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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What a good thing Adam had — when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. – Mark Twain, 1867

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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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