It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese 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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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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