The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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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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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish 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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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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