A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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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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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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