Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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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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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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