If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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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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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American 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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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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