No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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