Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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