Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

When the devil is old he turns hermit.

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Character | Effort |

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Italian Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

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Character | Consistency |

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Italian Proverbs

When your devil was born, mine was going to school.

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Character | Truth |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

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Faith | People | Purpose | Purpose | Reading | Science | Thought | Time | Thought |

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Italian Proverbs

You don't go to heaven in a carriage.

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Day | Existence | Golden Rule | Rule | Scripture | Story | Study | World | Golden Rule |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

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Aid | Government | Need | Praise | Government |

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Ivan Krastev

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions; transparency is politics' management of mistrust.

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Cult | Language | Myth | Paradise | People | Reality | Religion | Sense | Story | World |

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Italian Proverbs

You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run.

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Absolute | Giving | God | Good | Nothing | Paradise | Talking | God |

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