A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better late than never. ~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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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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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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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish 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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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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