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Aprendamos a ignorar, pensamiento, pues hallamos que cuanto an‹  ado al discurso, tanto le usurpo a los an‹  os. Thought, let's learn not to know, since so plainly it appears that whatever we add to our minds we take away from our years.

-Cruz, SorJuana Ine¤  s de la
  A Sor Juana  Anthology,'Acusa la hidropes |¤ a de mucha ciencia' (translated as'She Condemns the Bloatedness of Much Learning',1985).

The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all thatö No, no! They can't take that away from me!

-Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz
  'They Can't  Take That  Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

The way your smile just beams The way you sing off key The way you haunt my dreams No, no! They can't take that away from me!

-Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz
  'They Can't  Take That  Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

You ought to take the bull between the teeth.

-Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz
Recalled on his death, 31  Jan1974.

Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!

-Honorius of Autun
  'The Bridge of Sighs'.

   There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid; But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the sea In the heel of the North-East Trade.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Long Trail'.

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