A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish 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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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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