The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. ~Eoin Colfer
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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