An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ~Sue Kelly
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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