A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English 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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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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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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