Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

One daughter helps to marry the other.

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Italian Proverbs

When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

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Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |

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Italian Proverbs

There goes more than one ass to market.

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Ideas | Love | Qualities | Blessed | Winning |

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Italian Proverbs

When wine enters modesty departs.

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Ideas | People |

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Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

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Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

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Italian Proverbs

When the danger is past God is cheated.

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Absence | Atheism | Awareness | Awe | Cause | Fortune | Good | Gratitude | Ideas | Important | Insight | Language | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Myth | Need | Nothing | Object | Power | Prosperity | Question | Reality | Religion | Reputation | Reverence | Right | Sacred | Sense | Truth | Understanding | World | Awareness | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.

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Language | People | Words |

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Ivan Krastev

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

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Ideas | Practice | Sacred | Sense | Sound |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

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God | Ideas | Learning | Time | God | Learn |

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Italian Proverbs

Who would have many friends let him test but few.

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Battle | God | Kill | Language | Wills | God |

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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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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

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Change | Duty | Ideas | Nature | Opinion | Think |

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

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until you return.

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Ideas | Understanding |

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

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

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Art | Heart | Language | Religion | Art |

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

Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars were dimmed, and day came glimmering eastward silver-grey. Then trembling-veiled she would appear, and dance before him, half in fear; there flitting just before his feet she gently chid with laughter sweet: 'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me! For fain thy dancing I would see!

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Absence | Business | Ideas | Innovation | Life | Life | Model | Universe | Will | World | Following | Business |

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