Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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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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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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