The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home. ~Dennis Kucinich
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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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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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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