Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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