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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
[Lat., Aequa lege necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos.]
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
[Lat., Aequa lege necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos.]
Necessity never made a good bargain
Necessity never made a good bargain
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to
live in necessity.
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to
live in necessity.
[Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere
necessitas nulla est.]
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and
happy.
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and
happy.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.