But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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