One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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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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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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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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