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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

Plautus

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
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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Anand Thakur
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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Anand Thakur
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Blame Home Mistake Point
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Beginning Easy End Start
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Anand Thakur
You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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Anand Thakur
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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Balance Mindset Remedy
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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Exception Expectation Result Rule
I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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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
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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Anand Thakur
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Anand Thakur
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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Certain Lost Unknown
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.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

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