To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese 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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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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