The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Recognise.

God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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