Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish 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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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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