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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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. ~Howard W. Hunter
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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