A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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