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it breaks

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart-hearts are made to be broken-but that it turns one's heart to stone. Oscar Wilde

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. Russell Baker

I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos. Brandon Boyd

Where the thread is weakest it breaks. French Proverb

The pitcher goes so long to the well that it breaks at last. Dutch Proverb

The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones. Greek Proverb

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