The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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