That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Desire Expectation Frequent
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Anand Thakur
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Love Yourself
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Anand Thakur
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Believe Eyes See World
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Love Myself Talk Truth
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Football God Mortal
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Anand Thakur
Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Anand Thakur
It is easy to rule over the good.
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Easy Goodness Rule
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Anand Thakur
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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Anand Thakur
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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