You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~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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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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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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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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