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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosA good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data. ~Jeremy Stoppelman
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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