Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese 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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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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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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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Theatre is where my heart is. It is where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that is what I want to come back to. ~Kelly Reilly
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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