To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez. ~Erik Estrada
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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