A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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