The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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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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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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