Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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