A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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