Man only ever scores nine out of ten


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Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
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Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
JULIE BURCHILL
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

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ALVIN TOFFLER
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
JULIE BURCHILL
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. MENCKEN
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, an...
A. C. BENSON
Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
TERRY PRATCHETT
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her -- when, ni...
HELEN ROWLAND
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nin...
HELEN ROWLAND
Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
PATRICIA C. WREDE
Nine out of ten people love chocolate, and the 10th person is always lying.
ANONYMOUS
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
GEORGE BANCROFT
Nine out of ten males will believe anything, especially if it confirms their virility
ANDREA MARTIN
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y...
C.S. LEWIS
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y...
C. S. LEWIS
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
ANONYMOUS
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten time...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten time...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with n...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success...
DALE CARNEGIE
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
HENRY ADDINGTON
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle
HENRY ADDINGTON
Give nine, save ten
TURKISH PROVERB
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination
WILLIAM HAZLITT
If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it
HAUSA PROVERB
Even silence speaks
HAUSA PROVERB
Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repa...
MADAME DE TENCIN
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of inten...
JIM BUTCHER
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept i...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept i...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be conside...
TED WILLIAMS
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start ...
KIN HUBBARD
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will interce...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
JOHN LUBBOCK
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves t...
JACK CANFIELD
Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that
reason alone keeps people from al...
DARYNDA JONES
Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape
LOREN EISELEY
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
JON BON JOVI
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial ser...
CAROLYN MALONEY
Nine out of ten time we play this team, the would beat us. But not tonight because tonight is our ni...
HERB BROOKS
How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly su...
DOUGLAS HYDE
For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he...
STEPHEN KING
She has only been out of a place once in nine starts.
GERALD RYAN
Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a p...
G. K. CHESTERTON
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part ...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right th...
ANSELM FEUERBACH
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right t...
ANSELM FEUERBACH
…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts...
E.M. FORSTER
If you're going to put it on a scale of one to ten, it's probably some place between a nine and one-...
GEORGE COHEN
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten,...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
Some days, I am as evil as evil gets but nine out of ten times; it is good that ends up winning the ...
ENRIQUE VEGA
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Being Big Ten freshman of the year was a nice accomplishment. She adds a lot to the team other than ...
DEVON BROUSE
The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the t...
ROSEANNE BARR
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
I'm always coming out, checking scores, sneaking out of the kitchen.
GORDON ANDERSON
You will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of imp...
C.S. LEWIS
Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even ex...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Only two out of every ten men born in Russia in 1923 survived the Second World War.
JACK GOLDSTEIN
We had nine seniors, but only six were starters. And that's the only time I tried to talk a kid out ...
ARCH RODGERS
If I had ten hours to chop down negativity, I’d spend nine hours sharpening my positivity.
LILY CHATTERJEE
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
From where we're standing to the house was about ten feet. I'd say nine or ten feet of debris. 'Caus...
RUSS ANDERSON
They were overpowered, they were not shot, they were killed by knives and other metal objects. Some ...
EMEKA UMEH
I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famou...
BO BURNHAM
I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
SAM ELLIOTT
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
JANE AUSTEN
Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.
CLINT WALKER
Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb
CHINESE PROVERB
When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
DALEY THOMPSON
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ...
BILLY WILDER
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES KETTERING
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES F. KETTERING
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
BIBLE
Don't suck juice out of dirty belly buttons. You will get a stomach ache.~A Nerissa Proverb
NERISSA IRVING
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turn...
HAMPTON SIDES
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

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If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it
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Even silence speaks
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A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
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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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Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
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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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Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
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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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He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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The less people think the more they talk.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
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Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
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What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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Rest breeds rust.
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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
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Respect starts with yourself.
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He who is near the Church is often far from God.
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
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An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
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Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
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By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
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A wicked book cannot repent.
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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
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Live to live and you will learn to live.
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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
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We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
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Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
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Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
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Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
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Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
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None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
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No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Practice is the best master.
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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
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Force without forecast is to little avail.
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
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A poor man is all schemes.
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
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Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Why kill time when one can employ it.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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Time and I against any two.
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The longest day soon comes to an end.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
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In teaching others we teach ourselves.
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He who does not research has nothing to teach.
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He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
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No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
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Who has a trade may go anywhere.
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No one was ever lost on a straight road.
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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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He that falls by himself never cries.
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
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That which proves too much, proves nothing!
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When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
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If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
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The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
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Never say die.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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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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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
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Necessity unites.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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It is the truth that irritates a person.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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The Devil finds work for idle hands.
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The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
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