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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

If you do not honor

If you do not honor your parents, your children will not honor you.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

Keep yourself away if there

Keep yourself away if there is a quarrel between a husband and his wife.
105
Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

Don’t look at the shape

Don’t look at the shape -- look at the character.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

If you have no money,

If you have no money, you have no friends; but if you have it, then they are not friends.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

If a person can give

If a person can give you a finger he will also give you the whole hand.
127
Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

If you go to bed

If you go to bed hungry, you will wake up without having slept.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

It is easier to know

It is easier to know your enemies than to know your friends.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

No matter if you know

No matter if you know a thousand things, still consult him who knows one.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

If the lions would start

If the lions would start telling stories to their children, the hunter can’t beat them.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

If you are dependant on

If you are dependant on others, then you must make friends with the dog.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

If you do not want

If you do not want to work in the heat, you will have to starve in the cold.
100
Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

If you give the poor

If you give the poor wool today, God you will have a sheep tomorrow.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

The mouse never takes the

The mouse never takes the advice from the cat.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

In this world generous people

In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

He who wants to kill

He who wants to kill a dog says that he has urinated against the mosque.
99
Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

A man knows when he

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Necessity has the face of

Necessity has the face of a dog.
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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

No, not rich. I am

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

He who awaits much can

He who awaits much can expect little.
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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

The heart's memory eliminates the

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

A person doesn't die when

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

The problem with marriage is

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

She discovered with great delight

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Ultimately, literature is nothing but

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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