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  •   Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Proverbs 4:7.

  • Let's be getting at them before they get at us.

    -W(illiam) G(ilbert) Grace
    His reason for always choosing to bat first if his team won the toss. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • He was getting over a four-day drunk, and I was getting over a 4-year marriage.

    - Lillian Florence Hellman
      On meeting Dashiell Hammett. In the Christian Science Monitor,13 Oct.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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