My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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Every decision you make is a mistake. ~Edward Dahlberg
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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