The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic 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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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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