Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian 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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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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