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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosPractice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish 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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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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