The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen 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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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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