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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.

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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Anand Thakur
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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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
Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Anand Thakur
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
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
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Anand Thakur
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Expense Income Money Yourself
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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Anand Thakur
You will stir up the hornets.
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Anand Thakur
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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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
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Anand Thakur
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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Anand Thakur

Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.

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