Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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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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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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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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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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