When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others. ~John Wooden
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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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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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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