And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. ~CJ Roberts
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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