Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese 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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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. ~Gavin de Becker
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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