Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish 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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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~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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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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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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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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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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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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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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