Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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