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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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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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proverbiosI wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian 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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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish 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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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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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 man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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