Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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