Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German 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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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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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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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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