Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results (Albert Einstein quotation)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
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