like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade.
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
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Attitude Adjuster: When you smile at someone, nine times out of 10 the other person will smile back and you've made two people's days brighter and better.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
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Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her -- when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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Million to one chances happen nine times out of ten.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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