In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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