If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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