Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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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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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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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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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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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German 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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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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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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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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