No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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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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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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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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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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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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