Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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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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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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