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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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quotistBeware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world. ~Michael Flatley
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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