Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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