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“What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.”
Swedish Proverb
“The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliot
“Omelettes are not made without breaking eggs”
Maximilien Francois Robespierre
“The Rule of Sibs: If your sibling gets something you want, you (1) try to take it; (2) break it; or (3) say it's no good”
Patricia Fleming
“First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.”
Fitzhugh Dodson
“You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago....”
Charles Manson
“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night”
William Shakespeare
“Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two”
William Somerset Maugham
“No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass”
John Marshall
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
Vladimir Nabokov
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