Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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