A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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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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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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