If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian 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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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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Every knock is a boost. ~Elbert Hubbard
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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