Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English 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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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. ~John Barrasso
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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