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"Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
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"A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it." »South
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""Once I had a dream that I was sleeping."" »Tom Zegan
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"The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams." »Tupac Amaru Shakur
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"The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams." »Tupac Amaru Shakur
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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting." »Mark Twain
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"There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition." »Charlotte Bronte
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"There is no more time, the gray cat is sleeping on the gutter morning noon and night." »Nicolas Grenier
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." »Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral
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"sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*" »Theocritus
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"While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion." »The Hitopadesa
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"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)" »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)" »Ronald Reagan
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"History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don’t ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation." »Kenyan Proverb
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"Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village." »Morrow Mayo
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"Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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