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“We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.”
George Washington Carver quotes (American. Started his life as a slave and ended it as horticulturist, Chemist and Educator, 1864-1943)

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“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
Kwame Nkrumah quotes (Ghanaian 1st Ghana's President (1957-66). 1909-1972)

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“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”
Douglas Hofstadter quotes

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“There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra quotes (Spanish writer, author of the masterwork 'El quijote', 1547-1616)

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