It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
#quotes #dan-jenkins #sports

If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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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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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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