It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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