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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Anand Thakur
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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Labour Lose Word
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Animal Away Wolf
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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Anand Thakur
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Anand Thakur
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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Anand Thakur
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Death Esteem Guilt Reason
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Anand Thakur
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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Celebration Sweet Wine Word
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Anand Thakur
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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Life Mouse Oneself Trust
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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Anand Thakur
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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Anand Thakur
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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Desire Hope

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

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