What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. ~Zeno of Citium
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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