Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish 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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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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