It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Anand Thakur
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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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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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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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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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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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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