What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
#proverbs #mother #language

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea; in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ~Thomas Sowell
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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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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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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