Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Last night the Moon asked me, ""Why do not you leave your love if she makes you cry?" I looked back at the Moon and replied, "You are so lonely up there by can you leave your Sky?"
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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