Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African 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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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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