A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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