Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic 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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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek 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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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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