Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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