Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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