Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). ~Ibrahim Rugova
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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