It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Anand Thakur
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Man Relative Respect
In everything the middle road is best.
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Best Journey Road Travel
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Bury Genius Greatness Often
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Anand Thakur
No man is wise enough by himself.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Learning Life Sufficient
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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Paint Salt Woman
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Anand Thakur
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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Anand Thakur
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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