When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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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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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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