The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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