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There Is No Gathering The Rose Without Being Pricked By The Thorns.
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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai)
-- The Two Travellers, Chap. ii, Fable vi
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He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
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That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.
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There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
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Guilty consciences always make people cowards. -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Prince and his Minister, Chap.
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It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.
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Whoever... prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.
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