Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
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