You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
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You can win people to your side more easily by gentle persuasion and flattery than by hostile confrontation.
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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!
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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
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yottahertz, you, you-all, you better believe it, you bet your ass, You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink., you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, You cannot serve God and mammon, you can say that again, You can't fit a round peg in a square hole
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