Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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While we teach, we learn. ~Seneca
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German 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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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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