If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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