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“I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.”

Giving Two Five Four Fine Mathematics Agree Dues Excellent Fine Things

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.”

Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition

“Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.”

Together Cities Four Streets Fine Built London Britain Principal Finest Breadth

Author:Daniel Defoe

“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.”

Ifs Want Years Littles Two Ideas School Law Fun Bits Can Do Four Worst College Fine Thousand Little Bit Hundred Okay Dollars Debt What You Want Four Years Worst Things Law School

Author:Tucker Max

“There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.”

Ends Learning Four Students Fine Type Wine Permit Sponges Flour

Book:The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus

Source: The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus

“My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.”

Ifs Whole Four Fine Yards Motto

Author:Corey Dillon

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.”