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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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Anand Thakur
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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Dumb Handle Move Ring
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Anand Thakur
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
PLAUTUS

Fall In Love Fate Rock Worst
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUS

Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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Anand Thakur
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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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
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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Anand Thakur

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

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