"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French 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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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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