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These Things Are Not For The Best, Nor As I Think They Ought To Be
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These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be;
but still they are better than that which is downright bad.
-- Plautus (254-184 BC)
-- Trinummus, Act ii, Sc. 2, 111, (392.)
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Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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