Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

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Right | Wrong | Trouble | Think |

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Old friends are always new.

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Books | Character |

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The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.

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Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

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Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

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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

Two dogs fight for a bone and a third runs away with it.

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Character | Majority |

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Italian Proverbs

True love never grows old.

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Character | Good |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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Italian Proverbs

When the devil is old he turns hermit.

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Character | Effort |

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Italian Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

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Character | Consistency |

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Italian Proverbs

While there's life there's hope.

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Children | Mother |

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Italian Proverbs

The sons of cats catch mice.

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Character | Truth |

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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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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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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Children | Day | Depression | Despair | Effort | Knowledge | Life | Life | Parents | Suicide | World | Wrong | Child |

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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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