Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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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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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish 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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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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