A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL. ~Guy Lafleur
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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Last night the Moon asked me, ""Why do not you leave your love if she makes you cry?" I looked back at the Moon and replied, "You are so lonely up there by can you leave your Sky?"
#message #cute #goodnight

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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