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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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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
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Anand Thakur
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Beginning Easy End Start
In everything the middle road is best.
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Best Journey Road Travel
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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Anand Thakur
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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Manner Mud Vulgar
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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Insult Talk Willing Yourself
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Anand Thakur
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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Exception Expectation Result Rule
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Anand Thakur
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion
Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Friendship Wealth
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Anand Thakur
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Desire Expectation Frequent
A word to the wise is sufficient
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Sufficient Wisdom Word
No man is wise enough by himself.
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Anand Thakur
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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Anand Thakur
If you want to do something, do it!
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Anand Thakur
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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Fast Feast Future
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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Anand Thakur
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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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
You drown him by your talk.
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Anand Thakur

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

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