Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese 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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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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