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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
- John F. Kennedy

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
- William Shakespeare

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
- Benjamin Franklin

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln

John Lyly Quotes and Quotations

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

- John Lyly | Bee Quotes

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

- John Lyly | Fire Quotes

You are in some brown study.

- John Lyly | Study Quotes

A penny for your thought.

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Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

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