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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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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
The evil that we know is best.
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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
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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Anand Thakur
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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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
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Anand Thakur
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Anand Thakur
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.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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Anand Thakur
Your wealth is where your friends are.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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Anand Thakur
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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