"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree."

Proverb, English on happiness
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"You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years."

Proverb, English on friends and friendship   

"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"There's no better home than your first home."

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"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

France, Anatole on fashion
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"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due."

Inge, Dean William R. on trouble
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"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on duty
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one."

Proverb, Chinese on faults
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