Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
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“Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.”
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Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
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Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
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I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.
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If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
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America has an obligation to secure its borders, but it is wrong to pass laws that treat human beings as something less than human. If my father were alive, he would be in the forefront of the struggle for a fair and humane reform of our immigration laws.
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When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water's edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and communism.