Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish 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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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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