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Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.