Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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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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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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