Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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Tiles tiles tiles.

My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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