Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Saying is one thing, doing another.

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

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Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |

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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

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

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Curiosity | Error | Experience | Important | Life | Life | Nothing | Past | Pleasure | Price | Pride | Sense | Story | Teach | Time | Waiting | Will | Wrong |

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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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