To snatch the worm from the trap.

You will stir up the hornets.
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Anand Thakur
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUS

Day Friendship Guest Welcome
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
PLAUTUS

Fall In Love Fate Rock Worst
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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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
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
You drown him by your talk.
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Anand Thakur
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Anand Thakur
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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Anand Thakur
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUS

Love Yourself
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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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
If you want to do something, do it!
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Anand Thakur
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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Anand Thakur
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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Anand Thakur

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