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"Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the
diamond districts of the mind." -- W.R. Alger

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"I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble." -- Mennonite proverb
"If charity costs nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists." -- Yiddish proverb
"If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him." -- Chinese proverb
"If I am like others, who will be like me?" -- Yiddish proverb
"If I try to be like him, who will be like me?" -- Yiddish proverb
"If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter." -- Yiddish proverb
"If there is no wind, row." -- Latin proverb
"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth." -- Yiddish proverb
"If you do not want anyone to know, do not do it." -- Chinese proverb
"If you don't aspire to great things, you won't attain small things. -- Jewish proverb
"If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be a part of someone else's." -- American proverb
"If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon." -- Irish proverb
"If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot." -- Korean proverb
"If you live in my heart, you live rent free." -- Irish proverb
"If you look back, you'll soon be going that way." -- American proverb
"If you look up, there are no limits." -- Japanese proverb
"If you put out another's candle, you also will be in the dark." -- German proverb
"If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry." -- African proverb
"If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup." -- Turkish proverb
"If you want the truth, ask a child." -- French proverb
"If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet." -- Japanese proverb
"If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people." -- Oriental proverb
"Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune." -- Italian proverb
"In bad things be slow; in good things be quick." -- Afghan proverb
"In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress." -- Dutch proverb
"In the land of hope, there is never any winter." -- Russian proverb
"In time of war the devil makes more room in hell." -- German proverb
"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter." -- Chinese Proverb
"In this world, nothing is permanent except change." -- American proverb
"Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water." -- African proverb
"Injure others, injure yourself." -- Chinese proverb
"Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thornbush has roses." -- German proverb
"Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone." -- Columbian proverb
"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life." -- Irish proverb
"It is better to tell your money where to go than to ask where it went." -- American proverb
"It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue." -- Greek proverb
"It is easy to be brave from a distance." -- Native American proverb
"It is easy to halve the potato where there's love." -- Irish proverb
"It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling." -- American proverb
"It is not enough for a man to know how to ride, he must also know how to fall." -- Native American proverb
"It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun." -- Chinese proverb
"It is worse to be sick in the soul than in body." -- Polish proverb
"It isn't the whistle that pulls the train." -- Vermont proverb
"It takes all sorts to make a world." -- English proverb
"It takes two to make a quarrel but only one to end it." -- Nicaraguan proverb
"It usually rains where it's already wet." -- German proverb
"It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day." -- French proverb
"It's better to tell your money where to go than to ask where it went." -- American proverb
"It's easier to tear a hole than to mend one." -- Russian proverb
"It's easy to halve the potato where there's love." -- Irish proverb
"It's the whole, not the detail, that matters." -- German proverb

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