You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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