Know not what you know, and see not what you see.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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Anand Thakur
I am myself my own commander.
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Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Blame Home Mistake Point
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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Anand Thakur
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
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Anand Thakur
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Anand Thakur
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Anand Thakur
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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Anand Thakur
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Anand Thakur
Your wealth is where your friends are.
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Anand Thakur
It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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Anand Thakur
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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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

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