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Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain much.
Promises make debts, and debts make promises.
In prosperity think of adversity.
Everyone is a preacher under the gallows.
Who serves the public serves a fickle master.
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One quill is better in the hand than seven geese upon the strand.
There is a fool to every feast.
Great fish break the net.
All are not princes who ride with the emperor.
God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it.
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After rain comes fair weather.
A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife.
The nail suffers as much as the hole.
A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt.
Those who do not know how to squander their money – buy some porcelain and drop it.
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Where the minute hand suffices, the hour hand is not needed.
God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it.
One cannot grab a bald man by the hair.
Dogs have teeth in all countries.
When the dog is down, everyone is ready to bite him.
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Two dogs seldom agree over one bone.
He who goes to bed with dogs will get up with fleas.
Barking dogs don’t bite.
A dog with a bone knows no friend.
Better have a dog for your friend than your enemy.
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Wake not a sleeping dog.
Who wants to beat a dog, soon finds a stick.
When two dogs fight for a bone, the third runs away with it.
Caress your dog, and he’ll spoil your clothes.
It is hard to teach old dogs to bark.
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Great talkers are little doers.
Don’t cry herrings till they are in the net.
Nobody’s sweetheart is ugly.
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