You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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