I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian 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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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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