wise saying
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Gen. Douglas Sims, a senior officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, counseled the lawmakers that caution in this instance was wise, saying, “Once you take a shot, you can’t get it back.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
Comparison, as the wise saying goes, is the thief of joy.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
We have a wise saying," said he: " 'Better to have 100 friends than 100 rubles.'
From Time Magazine Archive
The Germans have a wise saying, 'The trees do not grow up to the sky.'
From Time Magazine Archive
Now this "Outline of Science" is certainly not a little book, and yet it illustrates part of the meaning of Leibnitz's wise saying.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson
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