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• The nail that sticks out is hammered down. Japanese Proverb
• Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.
  -- John Wolcot (1738-1819) -- Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv...
• When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women.
  I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do what you like now....
• The nail that sticks up gets hammered down. -- Japanese proverb
• When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women.
  I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do what you like now....
• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.
  She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well...
• Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.
  I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade....