It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Learning Life Sufficient
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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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
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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Anand Thakur
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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The evil that we know is best.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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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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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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