To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
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Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL. ~Guy Lafleur
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. ~Bill Wyman
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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