An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese 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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I make the girls jump like I am Kris Kross. ~Nicki Minaj
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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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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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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