To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from. ~Ashley Tisdale
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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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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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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