Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Animal Away Wolf
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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Insult Talk Willing Yourself
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Anand Thakur
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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Anand Thakur
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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Anand Thakur
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Anand Thakur
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Anand Thakur
I am myself my own commander.
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Anand Thakur
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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Anand Thakur
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Business Master Yourself
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Love Myself Talk Truth
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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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
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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