The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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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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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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