It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from. ~Ashley Tisdale
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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