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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosTo fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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