No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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