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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Italian Proverbs

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

When the wind serves, all aid.

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

It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one.

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Little | Will | Wisdom |

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

GANDALF: 'I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' BILBO: 'I should think so, in these parts. We're plain, quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things, they make you late for dinner.

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