Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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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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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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