Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Of the great and of the dead either speak will or say nothing.

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Control | Failure | Patience | Wisdom | World | Failure |

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One bird in hand is better far Than two that in the bushes are.

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God | Sin | Wisdom | God |

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Italian Proverbs

Much smoke, and little roast.

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Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

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One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

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Change | People | World | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.

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Power | Revolution | Will | World |

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The devil will tempt Lucifer.

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Smooth words make smooth ways.

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That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

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No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.

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Efficiency | Knowledge | Money | World |

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Italian Proverbs

The comforter's head never aches.

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The devil is bad because he is old.

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Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

Two women and a goose make a market.

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Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

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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 is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.

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Better | Opinion | Question | World |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.

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The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | World |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | Think |

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The mother of idiots is always pregnant.

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The liar needs a good memory.

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