Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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