A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.
- Sholom Aleichem
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- The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
- Gossip is nature’s telephone.
- If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn’t want to hear in the first place.
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- If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell...
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- The worm in the radish doesn’t think there is anything sweeter.
- There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand...
- Without love our life is … a ship without a rudder … like a body without a soul.
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