What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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