Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish 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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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian 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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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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