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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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Known Man Oneself Return Worth
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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Certain Lost Unknown
You drown him by your talk.
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Anand Thakur
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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Easy Finding Sick
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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Anand Thakur
The gods play games with men as balls.
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Ball Game God Man Play
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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Anand Thakur
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Anand Thakur
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Bury Genius Greatness Often
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Expense Income Money Yourself
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
Courage is its own reward.
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Courage One Liner Reward
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Anand Thakur

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

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