Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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