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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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Anand Thakur
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Anand Thakur
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Anand Thakur
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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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
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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Anand Thakur
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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Anand Thakur
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Lost Man Regard Shame
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom

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