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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.

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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
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Anand Thakur
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Anand Thakur
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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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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Anand Thakur
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Anand Thakur
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Anand Thakur
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
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
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Anand Thakur
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Expense Income Money Yourself
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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Anand Thakur
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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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
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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Anand Thakur

To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.

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