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No man has perpetual good fortune.

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Anand Thakur
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
It is easy to rule over the good.
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Easy Goodness Rule
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Day Friendship Guest Welcome
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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Condition Health Himself
The stronger always succeeds.
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Anand Thakur
Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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Fast Feast Future
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Known See Yourself
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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Anand Thakur
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Expense Income Money Yourself
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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Anand Thakur
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Deserve Worth
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Anand Thakur
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Football God Mortal
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Anand Thakur
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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Known Man Oneself Return Worth

No man has perpetual good fortune.

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