Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African 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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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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