No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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