But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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