Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez. ~Erik Estrada
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean 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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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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