Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English 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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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish 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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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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