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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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Celebration Sweet Wine Word
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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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
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Animal Away Wolf
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Believe Eyes See World
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Desire Fast Known Trouble
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
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
If you want to do something, do it!
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Anand Thakur
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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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
You drown him by your talk.
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Anand Thakur
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Anand Thakur
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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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
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
Man proposes, God disposes.
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God Man Propose
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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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
It is best to know the worst at once.
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Best Oneself Worst
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Anand Thakur
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Beginning Easy End Start
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
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Learning Life Sufficient

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