Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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