When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish 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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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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