If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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I make the girls jump like I am Kris Kross. ~Nicki Minaj
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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