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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

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If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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Anand Thakur
Ones oldest friend is the best.
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Anand Thakur
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Anand Thakur
Practice yourself what you preach.
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Practice Preach Yourself
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
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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Condition Health Himself
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Man Relative Respect
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Anand Thakur
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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Paint Salt Woman
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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Anand Thakur
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Deserve Worth
The evil that we know is best.
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Anand Thakur
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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Anand Thakur
Laws are subordinate to custom.
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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 fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

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