Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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