Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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