Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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