Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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