A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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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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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English 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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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