To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. ~Tinker Hatfield
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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