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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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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Anand Thakur
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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Anand Thakur
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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Known Man Oneself Return Worth
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
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Character Fortune Jewel Myself
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Anand Thakur
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Desire Expectation Frequent
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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Anand Thakur
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Believe Eyes See World
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Known See Yourself
Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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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
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Anand Thakur
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Death Esteem Guilt Reason
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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Anand Thakur
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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Labour Lose Word
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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Anand Thakur

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

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