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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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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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proverbiosThere are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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