Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there. ~Marc Ostrofsky
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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