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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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Anand Thakur
You drown him by your talk.
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Anand Thakur
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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Anand Thakur
It is best to know the worst at once.
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Best Oneself Worst
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Anand Thakur
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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Anand Thakur
No man has perpetual good fortune.
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Anand Thakur
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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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
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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Balance Mindset Remedy
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
Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Anand Thakur
Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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Anand Thakur
To snatch the worm from the trap.
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One Liner Trap Worm
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
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Anand Thakur
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Anand Thakur
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Known See Yourself
Let deeds correspond with words.
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Action Match One Liner Word
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Learning Life Sufficient
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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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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Anand Thakur
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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Anand Thakur
Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Gift Place Smooth Word
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Anand Thakur
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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Anand Thakur

The evil that we know is best.

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