Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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