Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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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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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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