At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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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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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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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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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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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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