It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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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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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanses-proverbs #reading #conformity

As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
#quotes #cole-porter #writing