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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful. ~Dennis Haysbert
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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