But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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