A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.


Nigerian Proverb

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“A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.”
ESAN MAGAZINE
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
All places are distant from heaven alike.
ROBERT BURTON
This is no time to make new enemies.
VOLTAIRE
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.
NIGERIAN PROVERB
Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.
NIGERIAN PROVERB
However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.
NIGERIAN PROVERB
Hold a true friend with both hands.
NIGERIAN PROVERB
He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.
NIGERIAN PROVERB
When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby
NIGERIAN PROVERB
When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby
NIGERIAN PROVERB
No matter how long the night may be, the day is sure to come
NIGERIAN PROVERB
A woman is like a horse: He who can drive her is her master
NIGERIAN PROVERB
The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is
NIGERIAN PROVERB
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
ISABELLE EBERHARDT
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
I'm not sure that Registered Traveler should be a research program.
JAMES DEMPSEY
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagin...
RICKIE LEE JONES
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
If you refuse to be taken for a ride, you will not end up in someone else's destination.
SEGUN OLOGE
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
Only a fool would believe he has no enemies. Wise men understand and flush them from their hiding pl...
TROY J. GAINEY
To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many...
STEVEN PINKER
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
LAO TZU
We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work.
HASSAN ALI
I think more people should plant more flowers in more places, to make the world a more colorful plac...
ALAN STEVENS
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someo...
VERA NAZARIAN
Watch your back, little wolf, they say. Enemies arise from unexpected places.
MARIE LU
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
GEORGE WASHINGTON
No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
LAO TZU
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
LAO-TZU
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
LAO TZU
Tell the truth and make enemies, ...many enemies
TROY J. GAINEY
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed fr...
ELIZABETH I
The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our ...
DAVID MCGEE
The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS
Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good ...
SHERRILYN KENYON
The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. T...
ED ROYCE
There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
Friends in high places definitely helped- especially if you had enemies in even higher spots.
CHLOE NEILL
an opportunity for Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military, and an opportun...
WOLE SOYINKA
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are
HARRIET MARTINEAU
\[Bryan Harvey\] didn't make enemies. People might have got mad at him, but he didn't make enemies.
JOHNNY HOTT
Traveler there is no trail you blaze the trail as you travel.
XOCHITL GARZA
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh,...
MARK TWAIN
There are enough no smoking places now.
DAVID HOCKNEY
I just got off a flight that crossed through five time zones. Does that make me a time traveler?
PHOTO
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
CONFUCIUS
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it pr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ
The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...
THOMAS SZASZ
A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
PAUL NEWMAN
A person with no enemies is a person with no personality.
JEFFREY FRY
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
FRANK HERBERT
One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they ke...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The announcement had been made taking into account the feelings of the people... There is no offence...
ALOK SINHA
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain ...
JANE SMILEY
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
BIBLE
By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemie...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL
Procastination should never be your close friend,but your very distant enemy.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
As TIME passes by many PEOPLE will turn out to be your ENEMIES! But its on YOU whether to make them ...
VIPIN ONGALATHE
Ours is not just a Nigerian bid, but the African bid.
YAKUBU GOWON
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS
People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places! Look for delusion and truth in the bottom ...
RYOKAN
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ANDY CORRIGAN
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, ...
THOMAS SZASZ
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW WILSON
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW T. WILSON
People should understand that compassionate love defines trustworthiness, attachment, and empathy wh...
SAAIF ALAM
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
There are places in the city you don't want to go at night, which is not the way it should be. I thi...
EMMA FITZPATRICK
Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Be...
EDWARD M. LERNER
It was one of those days, and no disrespect, but we should be coming to places like Wigan and gettin...
SHAY GIVEN
Friends becomes enemies, enemies become friends, no matter what happpens stay focused and stay true ...
OLASOT
He was tremendously against that, absolutely sincere: 'You should not go to these places. It's wrong...
PAUL MOORE
It's an easy way to make enemies, talking about it.
PETE ELIADES
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful (Proverbs 27:6).
BIBLE
Get those dinner reservations now. Places are filling up quick. Girls should have any hair or make-u...
KIP HAFEY
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PETE GRANGER
It will be an interesting project. We want to restore them historically by still make them appeal to...
CITY CLERK SCOTT BERKA
potentially make Texas more competitive in the not-too-distant future.
DAVID BOSITIS
God can make your enemies your footstool.
JOEL OSTEEN
I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibili...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
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When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.
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When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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Attack is the best form of defense.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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The less people think the more they talk.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
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Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
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A wicked book cannot repent.
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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
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We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
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No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Practice is the best master.
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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A poor man is all schemes.
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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Time and I against any two.
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The longest day soon comes to an end.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
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In teaching others we teach ourselves.
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No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
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Who has a trade may go anywhere.
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No one was ever lost on a straight road.
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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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He that falls by himself never cries.
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
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That which proves too much, proves nothing!
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When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
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If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
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The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
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Never say die.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
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Necessity unites.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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It is the truth that irritates a person.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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