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To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept i...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept i...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will interce...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, an...
A. C. BENSON
In Taunton, nine out of 21 establishments did not ask for ID and in Middleboro four out of nine fail...
DAVID DEIULIIS
…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts...
E.M. FORSTER
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right th...
ANSELM FEUERBACH
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right t...
ANSELM FEUERBACH
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness
TERENCE
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
GEORGE BANCROFT
We were created with the ability and the inclination to admire beauty. We should, however, do our be...
RON BRACKIN
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of inten...
JIM BUTCHER
Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Man only ever scores nine out of ten
HAUSA PROVERB
Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
PATRICIA C. WREDE
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. MENCKEN
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Nine out of ten people love chocolate, and the 10th person is always lying.
ANONYMOUS
Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficu...
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Begin. Keep on beginning. Nibble on everything.
Take a hike. Teach yourself to whistle. Lie. ELLEN KORT
Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a p...
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The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part ...
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Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart...
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Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.
PROVERB
The best way to flatter people is to ask them for an advice.
AMIT KALANTRI
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Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO
The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
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Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO
We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO
Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO
I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO
We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO
I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
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I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
HENRY ADDINGTON
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle
HENRY ADDINGTON
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repa...
MADAME DE TENCIN
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE
I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.
RUBY WAX
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten,...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang...
JAMES CLAVELL
Nine out of ten males will believe anything, especially if it confirms their virility
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[We are out door-knocking with Burrill, Clevedon MP Judith Collins, or Miss Perky, as she doesn't mi...
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Telling a story about something you know nothing about is like starting a new job without the traini...
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If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefu...
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I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
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If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
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Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
ANONYMOUS
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
WILLIAM WIRT
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Perfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIRE
One of the advantages of being Captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to...
JAMES T. KIRK
If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
ICHIRO SUZUKI
But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why ...
CLINTON KELLY
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten time...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten time...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that
reason alone keeps people from al...
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on s...
GERMANY KENT
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start ...
KIN HUBBARD
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
JULIE BURCHILL
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
JULIE BURCHILL
People usually have to be dragged kicking and screaming into what’s good for them.
CLIFFORD COHEN
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly su...
DOUGLAS HYDE
Give nine, save ten
TURKISH PROVERB
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
JOHN LUBBOCK
My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found ...
JOHN KRASINSKI
Why is it that we sometimes ask for advice to problems that we already know the answers to?
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS
I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realiz...
MAX WEBER
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
ICHIRO SUZUKI
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
JON BON JOVI
Some days, I am as evil as evil gets but nine out of ten times; it is good that ends up winning the ...
ENRIQUE VEGA
I give great advice, few ask for it.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
Ask for advice, and then use your brain.
VIKRANT PARSAI
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
JANE AUSTEN
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for th...
HENRY JAMES
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
JULIE BURCHILL
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and j...
ANNA JAMESON
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and...
ANNA JAMESON
The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to ...
SPIKE MILLIGAN
To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all.
I don't...
LEE SMITH
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial ser...
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You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I must have loved you a lot.
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Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
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What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...
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You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
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The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
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For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
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You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
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I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
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Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
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And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
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I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
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Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
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Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
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Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
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You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
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Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
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It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
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While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
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Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
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Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
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Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
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Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
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But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
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The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
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She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
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When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
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But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
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Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
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He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
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But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
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Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
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It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
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If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
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Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
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Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
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