Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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I held hands with her all the time; that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were. ~J. D. Salinger
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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