A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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