Great Throughts Treasury

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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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The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

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Self |

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While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

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Respect | System | Respect |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.

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Memory | Time | Truth |

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When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

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Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

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Who hath no courage must have legs.

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Events | War |

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The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

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The water breaks out where it is not expected.

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Truth |

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Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

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Force |

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There's no place like home.

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Government | Past | War | Government | Propaganda |

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Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |

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To move heaven and earth.

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War | Will | Value |

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

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Character | Truth |

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The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

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Respect | Will | World | Respect |

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