Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh 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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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English 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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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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