Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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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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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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