Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese 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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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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