No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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Anand Thakur
Laws are subordinate to custom.
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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
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
Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Friendship Wealth
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Anand Thakur
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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Anand Thakur
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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Anand Thakur
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Anand Thakur
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Learning Life Sufficient
No blessing lasts forever.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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Anand Thakur
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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