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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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Fall In Love Fate Rock Worst
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
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Greet. Poor Kindness Man Oneself Purpose Rich
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Lost Man Regard Shame
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
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Anand Thakur
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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Man Mistake Please Woman Worst
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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Anand Thakur
How great in number are the little minded men.
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Greatness Man Mindset Number
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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Anand Thakur
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Death Esteem Guilt Reason
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Anand Thakur
You will not be a chip the richer.
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Anand Thakur
Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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Anand Thakur
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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Day Willing Yourself
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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Hands Injustice Simplicity

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

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