Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish 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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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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