Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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