Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish 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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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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