Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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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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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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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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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French 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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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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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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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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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 man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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