Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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