Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ~Ronald Steel
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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