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Famous quotes containing the words word and/or occurs:

“At ev’ry word a reputation dies.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“My old Father used to have a saying that “If you make a bad bargain, hug it the tighter”; and it occurs to me, that if the bargain you have just closed [marriage] can possibly be called a bad one, it is certainly the most pleasant one for applying that maxim to, which my fancy can, by any effort, picture.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)