He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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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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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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