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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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One Liner Trap Worm
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Anand Thakur
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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Easy Finding Sick
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Anand Thakur
I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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Anand Thakur
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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Exception Expectation Result Rule
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
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Anand Thakur
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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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
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Bury Genius Greatness Often
Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Anand Thakur
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

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