Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Anand Thakur
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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