It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals. ~Bill Dedman
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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