A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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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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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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