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  • Aprendamos a ignorar, pensamiento, pues hallamos que cuanto an‹  ado al discurso, tanto le usurpo a los an‹  os. Thought, let's learn not to know, since so plainly it appears that whatever we add to our minds we take away from our years.

    - SorJuana Ine  s de la Cruz
      A Sor Juana  Anthology,'Acusa la hidropes | a de mucha ciencia' (translated as'She Condemns the Bloatedness of Much Learning',1985).

  • The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that No, no! They can't take that away from me!

    - Ira originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
      'They Can't  Take That  Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

  • The way your smile just beams The way you sing off key The way you haunt my dreams No, no! They can't take that away from me!

    - Ira originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
      'They Can't  Take That  Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

  • You ought to take the bull between the teeth.

    - Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz Goldwyn
    Recalled on his death, 31  Jan1974.

  • Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!

    -Honorius of Autun
      'The Bridge of Sighs'.

  •    There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid; But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the sea In the heel of the North-East Trade.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'The Long Trail'.

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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