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“Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!”
William Shakespeare
“Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them”
Walter Kerr
“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being”
Otto von Bismarck
“For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.”
Conrad Veidt
“Loving is half of believing.”
Victor Hugo
“It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.”
Captain Frederick Marryat
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
Will Durant
“It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.”
Winnie the Pooh
