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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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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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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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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