Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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