A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. ~Charles XII of Sweden
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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