Famous quotes containing the words proper, planning and/or prevents:
“Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.”
—James A. Garfield (18311881)
“The fishermen say that the thundering of the pond scares the fishes and prevents their biting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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