The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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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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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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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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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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