A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish 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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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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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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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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