Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Shame take him that shame thinketh.

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Love | People |

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Italian Proverbs

On a long journey even a straw is heavy.

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Enough | Good | Man |

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Italian Proverbs

ne with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.

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Italian Proverbs

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

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Man |

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Italian Proverbs

No day but has its evening.

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Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

One is never too old to yearn.

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Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Never rub your eye but with your elbow.

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Italian Proverbs

People get the government they deserve.

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Better | Love | Relationship | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

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Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

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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

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

Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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Italian Proverbs

The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross.

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Important | Self-knowledge | Truths |

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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

Water after does not quench a fire at hand.

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Time | Unity | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

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Better | Capacity | Love |

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