An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian 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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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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