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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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proverbiosTear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Atrial fibrillation can be taken care of. The point is that it is manageable. Everybody is different and will have different ways of managing whatever they need, and their doctor will have ways of managing theirs. But I think the first key is just to know it exists, know whether you have it, and know what the risks are and take care of yourself! ~Howie Mandel
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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