As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English 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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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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The support in Britain made a big difference. ~Louise Woodward
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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