Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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