You drown him by your talk.

In everything the middle road is best.
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Best Journey Road Travel
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Gift Place Smooth Word
Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Anand Thakur
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
You will stir up the hornets.
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Anand Thakur
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Anand Thakur
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Anand Thakur
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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Day Willing Yourself
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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Insult Talk Willing Yourself
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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Condition Health Himself
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Known See Yourself
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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Anand Thakur
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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