Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that; maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. ~Elle Fanning
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~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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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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