Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
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
Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Friendship Wealth
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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Anand Thakur
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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Condition Health Himself
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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Anand Thakur
Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Gift Place Smooth Word
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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Anand Thakur
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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Man Mistake Please Woman Worst
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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Anand Thakur
Laws are subordinate to custom.
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