Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen 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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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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