Your wealth is where your friends are.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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Exception Expectation Result Rule
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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Dumb Handle Move Ring
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Anand Thakur
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Business Master Yourself
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Blame Home Mistake Point
Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Gift Place Smooth Word
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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Manner Mud Vulgar
It is much easier to begin than to end.
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Anand Thakur
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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Insult Talk Willing Yourself
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Anand Thakur
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
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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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
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Anand Thakur

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