Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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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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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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