After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are. ~Candace Bushnell
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on "Hollyoaks." ~Nathalie Emmanuel
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