All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish 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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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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