Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.

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Change | Civilization | Future | Global | Health | Inconvenient | Land | Security | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The habit does not make the monk.

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Italian Proverbs

The good shepherd shears, not flays.

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Italian Proverbs

No one is bound to do impossibilities.

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Care | Hate | Health |

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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

The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.

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Administration | Decision | Global | Health | Policy | Right | Rights | Struggle |

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Italian Proverbs

When wine sinks, words swim.

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Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from... the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviar, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

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Absolute | Compassion | Equity | Heart | Honor | Suffering | Work | World |

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

All shall love me and despair.

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