...грязью играть - только руки марать...

Прокофьич (Анисим Прокофьев) - Сергею Андреевичу Валягину
- П.И. Мельников-Печерский "Старые годы

П.И. Мельников-Печерский

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...как бы на горох не мороз, он бы через тын перерос.

Прокофьич (Анисим Прокофьев) - Сергею Андреевичу Валягину
- П.И. Мельников-Печерский "Старые годы

П.И. Мельников-Печерский

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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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Colter searched for original Mexican tiles to use as patterns for copies, and during the search, a barrel of old tile letters was found in a cellar corner. She decided to use the letters on the walls of the Cocina Cantina to spell out old Spanish proverbs about eating and drinking. Above the bar was "A vuestra salud" [to your health], and in another room, "Not with whom you were born, but with whom you pasture.

Virginia L. Grattan

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Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.

Ann Coulter

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Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

Patricia C. Wrede

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He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Jennifer Donnelly

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They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

Bob Massie

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It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

James Richardson

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Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Benjamin Franklin

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