Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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