Where there are friends there is wealth.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Love Yourself
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Anand Thakur
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Deserve Worth
The evil that we know is best.
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Anand Thakur
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Lost Man Regard Shame
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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Anand Thakur
Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Friendship Wealth
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Anand Thakur
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Gift Place Smooth Word
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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Anand Thakur
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 a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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Anand Thakur
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Anand Thakur

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