Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Penny and penny laid up will be many.

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Diversity | People | Understanding | Understand |

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Saying is one thing, doing another.

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Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Much smoke, and little roast.

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Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

Not all words require an answer.

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Better | God | Will | God |

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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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Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.

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Politics | Vision | Will |

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Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.

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Right | Study | Will |

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Skill or fortune will efface the spots.

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Evidence | Feelings | Little | People | Understand |

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Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.

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Power | Revolution | Will | World |

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Shame take him that shame thinketh.

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Love | People |

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Italian Proverbs

The devil will tempt Lucifer.

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Much water passes by the mill that the miller perceives not.

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People in glass houses should not throw stones.

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Personality | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

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Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

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Italian Proverbs

No one ever became poor through giving alms.

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Art | Design | Sense | Technology | Thinking | Will | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

One enemy is too many and a hundred friends aren't enough.

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Learning | Need | Will | Teacher |

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Italian Proverbs

Smooth words make smooth ways.

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Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.

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Office | People | Question | Will |

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That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.

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People | Present | Relationship |

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One daughter helps to marry the other.

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