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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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proverbiosA man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African 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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