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The Edge

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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. Desmond Tutu

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. Willa Cather

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. William Hazlitt

A tea cup on the edge of a well. Japanese Proverb

Running on the roof finishes at the edge. Swahili Proverb

Whose end of tongue is sharp, the edge of his head must be hard. Bengali Proverb

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