The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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