Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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