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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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish 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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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done. ~Josh Turner
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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