"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."

Toffler, Alvin on parents and parenting   

"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."

Augustine, St. on perfection
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"A stumble may prevent a fall."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune."

Proverb, English on age and aging   

"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"Death is a shadow that always follows the body."

Proverb, English on death
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"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on death
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"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."

Proverb, English on debt
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"The difference is wide that sheets will not decide."

Proverb, English on decisions   

"He that seeks trouble never misses."

Proverb, English on delinquency
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"Never step over one duty to perform another."

Proverb, English on duty
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"A burnt child dreads the fire."

Proverb, English on experience
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"A small family is soon provided for."

Proverb, English on family   

"Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork."

Proverb, English on food and eating   

"Fools build houses, and wise men buy them."

Proverb, English on fools and foolishness   

"You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years."

Proverb, English on friends and friendship   

"He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress."

Proverb, English on fools and foolishness
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"Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight."

Proverb, English on friends and friendship   

"The best throw of the dice is to throw them away."

Proverb, English on gambling   

"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him."

Proverb, English on gentlemen   

"Take heed you do not find what you do not seek."

Proverb, English on goals   

"Gray hairs are death's blossoms."

Proverb, English on hair   

"We are usually the best men when in the worst health."

Proverb, English on health
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"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."

Proverb, English on heroes and heroism
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"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Proverb, English on hope
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"The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives."

Proverb, English on husbands   

"An idle brain is the devil's workshop."

Proverb, English on idleness   

"'Tis money that begets money."

Proverb, English on investments   

"Many a true word is spoken in jest."

Proverb, English on jest   

"Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind."

Proverb, English on kindness
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"In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool."

Proverb, Yiddish on fools and foolishness   

"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fools and foolishness
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"The thing I fear most is fear."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on age and aging
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"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."

Beaumarchais, Pierre De on love
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"Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."

Bataille, Georges on love
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on love
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"A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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