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13 collected words

Pilpay (Or Bidpai.)

Dates not recorded

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.

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02Undated

It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.

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03Undated

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

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04Undated

Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.

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05Undated

Men are used as they use others.

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06Undated

What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.

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07Undated

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

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08Undated

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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09Undated

There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.

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10Undated

There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.

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11Undated

He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.

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12Undated

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.

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13Undated

That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.

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