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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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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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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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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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian 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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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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