May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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