You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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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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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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