After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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