Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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