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Jim Genovese

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.
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When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
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The sun will set without thy assistance.
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The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
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Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
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If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
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