A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.


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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
PROVERB
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs
GERMAN PROVERB
The quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MOHANDAS GANDHI
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated
MAHATMA GANDHI
The Greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GHANDI
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are t...
MAHATMA GANDHI
The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
SIMON SINEK
A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.
AMIT KALANTRI
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are trea...
MELANIE JOY
The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares
AGONA APELL
A person can't be judged by his words, behavior or looks, He can only be judged by their thoughts.
JAZZ GILL
Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that o...
JIM BUTCHER
The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and pe...
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I...
MAHATMA GANDHI
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way it's animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Je...
NORMAN DAVIES
the country will for the first time be governed by a radical who... will try to destroy the German m...
ANGELA MERKEL
You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
NELSON MANDELA
A woman can be judged by her cooking, her dressing and her husband.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by ...
LAURENCE HOPE
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by ...
ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON
How can German music not be represented by an article?
WASSILY KANDINSKY
Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two p...
PLATO
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the r...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
This will be judged on its merits.
KAREN SZULCZEWSKI
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
JANE BYRNE
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
ARISTOTLE
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely re...
PERRY ANDERSON
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the...
RANDY SCHEKMAN
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not...
NELSON MANDELA
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and ca...
JAMES FORRESTAL
The quality of meditation should not be measured by frequency, duration, or serenity, but rather by ...
JIM GENOVESE
This party will, ultimately, be judged on its ability to deliver on its promise.
TONY BLAIR
Talent is a by-product of education; the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.
KLAUS SCHWAB
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mat...
VERNON HOWARD
Every act is to be judged by the intention of the agent.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover u...
MARYROSE WOOD
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its char...
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
KARL JASPERS
...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, ...
PAUL HOFFMAN
A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and...
PAUL KALANITHI
The quality of thoughts depends not on mind or heart, but on the humane words deeply embedded with c...
ANUJ SOMANY
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
FRANCIS BACON
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six
SHERRILYN KENYON
Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15
BIBLE
“It is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should ...
NELSON MANDELA
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
You can be a black man in the country noted for its rampant racism
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable i...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will st...
RAHM EMANUEL
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear...
MARLENE DIETRICH
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear...
MARLENE DIETRICH
The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.
NOSTRADAMUS
That 'I cannot tell a lie' has almost become a proverb. It's something that turns the patriarch of o...
JACK SANTINO
you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take...
PAULO COELHO
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN
You can judge a restaurant by the quality of ketchup the serve.
HARSHIT SHAH
The act is judged of by the event.
UNKNOWN
Wer nicht lächeln kann, soll kein Geschäft aufmachen. >
KIN LING FUCHS
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listen...
LILY WALTERS
would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest ...
LEO HINDERY
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or milita...
HERBERT READ
Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusade...
THOMAS SOWELL
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE
The German government is continuing its efforts to clarify the fate of the German citizen who has be...
JENS PLOETNER
One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
BIBLE
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people
JAMES HOWELL
Patch grief with proverbs
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.
BRIAN SPELLMAN
The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its militar...
KIM JONG-UN
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights fo...
GEORGE ELIOT
The beauty of her fairness has nothing to do with her character. A woman cannot be judged by her app...
ETC WANYANWU
As a result, there will be very few orders won (by German companies).
JOCHEN CLAUSNITZER
Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German...
RICHARD WAGNER
We also create income there that would spur demand for German products. And we integrate central and...
HANS REICH
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of ...
MARGARET MEAD
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
BAINBRIDGE COLBY
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.

~ Dr. Burdette
SHERRILYN KENYON
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.
MIN KIM
I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with ...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON

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Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.).
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A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.
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To change and to change for the better are two different things.
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Charity sees the need not the cause.
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A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an ...
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A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day
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Loquacity and lying are cousins.
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No answer is also an answer.
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Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.
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He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief
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Envy eats nothing but its own heart
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He who borrows sells his freedom.
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He who borrows sells his freedom
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Buying is cheaper than asking.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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Charity sees the need, not the cause.
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He who teaches children learns more than they do
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Never give advice unless asked.
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Who begins too much accomplishes little.
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It's the whole, not the detail, that matters.
GERMAN PROVERB
If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.
GERMAN PROVERB
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
GERMAN PROVERB
God gives, but man must open his hand.
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As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
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Anger without power is folly.
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A hedge between keeps friendship green.
GERMAN PROVERB
To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing
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What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse
GERMAN PROVERB
When the fox preaches, look to your geese
GERMAN PROVERB
One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
GERMAN PROVERB
An example from the monkey: the higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind
GERMAN PROVERB
Politeness is what warmth is to wax
GERMAN PROVERB
Ambition and fleas both jump high
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A baptized Jew is a circumcised Christian
GERMAN PROVERB
Happy is the one who forgets that which cannot be changed
GERMAN PROVERB
You can do anything with children if only you play with them
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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
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An old man loved is a winter with flowers
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Not every ass has long ears
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Where there are no swamps there are no frogs
GERMAN PROVERB
The stomach is easier filled than the eye
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The only real equality is in the cemetery
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Forever is a long bargain.
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To bury grief plant a seed.
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No woman marries an old man for God's sake.
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Who begins too much accomplished little.
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
GERMAN PROVERB
Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
GERMAN PROVERB
Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
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Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
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He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth
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A teacher is better than two books
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
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If you put out another's candle, you also will be in the dark
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Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power
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He who likes cherries soon learns to climb
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If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
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Except for the night, we could never know the stars
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Silence is a fence around wisdom
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The wise man has long ears and a short tongue
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Who speaks ill of others to you will speak ill of you to others
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When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs
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If the old dog barks, he gives counsel
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A bad penny always comes back
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Many look with one eye at what they give, but with seven at what they receive
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He who blackens others does not whiten himself
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There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so
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Empty heads are very fond of long titles
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Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
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Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life
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God's mill goes slowly but grinds fine
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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Better an honest enemy than a false friend
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Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog
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Money lent to a friend must be recovered from an enemy
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The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.
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Between the anvil and the hammer.
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Do not despise an insignificant enemy or a slight wound
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Coffee and love are best when they are hot
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There is no better gambling than not to gamble
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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A good neighbor doubles the value of a house.
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Wealth lost---something lost; honor lost---much lost; Courage lost---all lost.
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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.
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He who teaches a boy teaches three: a youth, a young man, and an old man
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The more laws the less justice
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A good name is a second inheritance
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There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale
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Always something new, seldom something good.
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Blind zeal can only do harm
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An uneducated person is like an unpolished mirror
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Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.
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Who accepts nothing has nothing to return
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He who prizes little things is worthy of great ones
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A young doctor means a new graveyard
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Long is not forever
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The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit
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Those who don't pick roses in summer won't pick them in winter either
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Be silent, or say something better than silence
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Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double
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People show their character by what they laugh at
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Never give advice unasked
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Learned fools exceed all fools
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.
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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding
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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.
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Who rides slow, must saddle betimes
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For the diligent, a week has seven days; for the slothful, seven tomorrows
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The greatest step is out the door.
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Charity sees the need, not the cause
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses
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Beauty is a good letter of introduction
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The worse scoundrels make the best preachers
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Those who tickle themselves may laugh when they please
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One nail drives out another
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He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy
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To know and not to do is not to know
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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The time to make friends is before you need them.
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Short judgments make long friends.
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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From small beginnings come great things.
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Some will, some don't, so what!
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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Try and trust will move mountains.
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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All sins cast long shadows.
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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A silent mouth is melodious.
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Silence implies consent.
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Shame is worse than death.
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God likes help when helping people.
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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Attack is the best form of defense.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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Kings have many ears and eyes.
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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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