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Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue.
Uncategorised
Plutarch

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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Bohemia
Ezra Pound

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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Possibilities
Prince

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Could everything be done twice it would be done better.
Quality
Proverb

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.
Age and Aging
Proverb

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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
Potential
Francois Rabelais

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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Success
Jean Paul Richter

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We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.
Decency
R. W. Riis

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Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
Losers and Losing
Pat Riley

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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Performance
Pat Riley

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All men would be cowards if they could.
Coward and Cowardice
Earl Rochester

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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Scandal
Benjamin Rush

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
Meaning of Life
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
Pain
George Santayana

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God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.
Mothers
Jewish Saying

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Books - Reading
Arthur Schopenhauer

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What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
Possibilities
Robert H. Schuller

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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Purpose
Seneca

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For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
Philosophers and Philosophy
William Shakespeare

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Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
Silence
William Shakespeare

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I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
Women
Becky Sharp

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A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
Happiness
George Bernard Shaw

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But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Friends and Friendship
George Bernard Shaw

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!
Learning
Enrique Solari

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
Power
Spanish Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun