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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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