Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American 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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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish 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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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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