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«Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.»
«Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.»
«Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.»
«Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave»
«All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.»
«Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.»
«Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing»
«The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.»
«Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.»
«Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken»

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