Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ~Martin Luther
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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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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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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