What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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