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Old 09-07-2007, 05:48 AM   #981
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It is better to have loved and lost, rather than to...

...suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

The play's the thing...
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Old 09-10-2007, 10:00 AM   #982
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The play's the thing...
...made glorious summer by this sun of York.

Because I could not stop for Death...
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Because I could not stop for Death...
.... I come to bury Caeser, not to praise him.

(BTW, have you ever noticed that you can sing the entire "Because I could not stop for death.. " to the tune of Oh, Susannah?

I'll lug the guts into the ........
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I'll lug the guts into the ........
...apple of his eye.

Nothing ventured, ...
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Nothing ventured, ...
...nothing doing.


Time heals...
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death and taxes.

He knows which side his .........
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When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.


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Too many cooks...
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Too many cooks...
...spoiling for a fight.


The lady doth protest...
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... enter the Dragon.

I once was lost...
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... and shall not depart therefrom.

Quoth the Raven....
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Fish and visitors...
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is better than a stick in the eye.

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.... is a dish best served cold.

Might as well be hanged......
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