A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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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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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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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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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's "China Beach," "The West Wing," or "E.R." ~Michael Cudlitz
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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