Great Throughts Treasury

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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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She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.

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The devil will tempt Lucifer.

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Once resolved, the trouble is over.

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Church | Counsel | Rest | Counsel |

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Smooth words make smooth ways.

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

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Society | Success | Society |

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That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

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The fear of war is worse than war itself.

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Ability | Reason | Story | Thinking |

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No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.

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Efficiency | Knowledge | Money | World |

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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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Italian Proverbs

The thief's wife does not always laugh.

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Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |

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Italian Proverbs

Two women and a goose make a market.

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Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

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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 sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.

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There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.

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Better | Opinion | Question | World |

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

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The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | 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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To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.

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Harm | News | Rights |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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