An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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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 half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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