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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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proverbiosI have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh 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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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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