A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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