The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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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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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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