I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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