One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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