The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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