He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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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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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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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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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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