It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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