A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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