Great Throughts Treasury

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ne with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.

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One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

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Man |

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No day but has its evening.

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Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

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One is never too old to yearn.

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Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

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Never rub your eye but with your elbow.

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One devil drives out another.

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Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |

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People get the government they deserve.

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Better | Love | Relationship | Understand |

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So good that he is good for nothing.

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Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

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The back door is the one that robs the home.

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Friends |

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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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The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

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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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When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon.

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Feelings | Mistake |

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There goes more than one ass to market.

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Ideas | Love | Qualities | Blessed | Winning |

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

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World |

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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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Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

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Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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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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