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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Anand Thakur
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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Exception Expectation Result Rule
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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Anand Thakur
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
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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Anand Thakur
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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Celebration Sweet Wine Word
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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Fall In Love Fate Rock Worst
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Believe Eyes See World
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
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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Anand Thakur
Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

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