If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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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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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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