One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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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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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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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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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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