He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~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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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian 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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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~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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