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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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of. ~Paul Walker
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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