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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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Anand Thakur
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Day Friendship Guest Welcome
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Animal Away Wolf
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Business Master Yourself
The stronger always succeeds.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Anand Thakur
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Anand Thakur
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Anand Thakur
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Anand Thakur
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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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
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Anand Thakur
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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Anand Thakur

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

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