In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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