He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask. ~Kate Winslet
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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