If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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