A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish 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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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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