What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further. ~Donald Glover
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Last night the Moon asked me, ""Why do not you leave your love if she makes you cry?" I looked back at the Moon and replied, "You are so lonely up there by can you leave your Sky?"
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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