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«A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.»
Author: Garson Kanin
(
Actor,
Film Director,
Writer)
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About:
Age,
Longevity,
Questioning
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Keywords:
attributed,
longevity,
nights,
ninety,
reckon,
reckons,
Sat,
slept,
twinkle,
twinkling,
worried
«For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.»
«Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends»
«And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.»
«All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.»
«Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week»
«And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
Commandments,
covenant,
covenanted,
covenants,
forty,
nights,
tables,
Ten Commandments,
The Covenant,
The Ten,
The Ten Commandments,
writing table,
wrote
«'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(
Actress,
Producer)
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About:
Destiny,
Mankind
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Keywords:
board,
Board of,
checker,
checkers,
closet,
hither,
hither and thither,
Laid Back,
lays,
mates,
nights,
one by one,
slays,
the closet,
thither
«Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days.»
«Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days; Compare dead happiness with living woe; Think that thy babes were fairer than they were, And he that slew them fouler than he is: Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse: Revolving this will teach»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
babes,
bettering,
compare,
fairer,
forbear,
forbearing,
fouler,
nights,
revolves,
revolving,
slew,
woe