The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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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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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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