You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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To eat off another man's plate. [To live on another's expense.] ~Juvenal
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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