I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish 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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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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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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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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