A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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I love zoo sanctuaries. ~Nancy Travis
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. ~Steve Waugh
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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