What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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