The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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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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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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