As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ~Ben Nelson
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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