It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish 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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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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