The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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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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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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