I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban 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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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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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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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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