A gift long expected is sold, not given


Italian Proverb

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The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
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From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
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Years and sins are always more than owned.
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Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin.
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The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
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He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
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After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.
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Bed is the poor man's opera.
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The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
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There is no robber worse than a bad book.
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The best way to get praise is to die.
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Voice of one, voice of none.
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.
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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
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One is never too old to yearn.
ITALIAN PROVERB
The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
ITALIAN PROVERB
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Years and sins are always more than owned.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin.
ITALIAN PROVERB
The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
ITALIAN PROVERB
He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
ITALIAN PROVERB
After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Bed is the poor man's opera.
ITALIAN PROVERB
The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
ITALIAN PROVERB
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
ITALIAN PROVERB
The best way to get praise is to die.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Voice of one, voice of none.
ITALIAN PROVERB
The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.
ITALIAN PROVERB
A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
ITALIAN PROVERB
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would...
ITALIAN PROVERB
The best armor is to keep out of range.
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
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If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.
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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
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Speak of the Devil and he appears.
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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.
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Money begets money.
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Moderate profits fill the purse.
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The person who lives by hope will die by despair.
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Our last garment is made without pockets.
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
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When the danger is past God is cheated.
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Misfortune does not always result in harm.
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The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
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Hunger is the best sauce.
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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.
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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.
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He that jokes confesses.
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He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
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The healthy die first.
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Big mouthfuls often choke.
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The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.
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The right man comes at the right time.
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Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.
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He who knows little quickly tells it.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.
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At a round table there is no dispute about place.
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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.
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Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
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To him who is determined it remains only to act.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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He who is not impatient is not in love.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Old wine and friends improve with age.
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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Often he who does too much does too little.
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After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.
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Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.
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Bed is the poor man's opera
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To him that watches, everything is revealed.
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Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Years and sins are always more than owned.
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When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box
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If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy woul...
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To a quick question, give a slow answer.
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One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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He who begins many things finishes but few.
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Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
ITALIAN PROVERB
By learning to obey, you will know how to command.
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By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.
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Better no law than laws not enforced.
ITALIAN PROVERB
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
ITALIAN PROVERB
A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it
ITALIAN PROVERB
Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking glass
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When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved
ITALIAN PROVERB
He dances well to whom fortune pipes
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One pair of ears would exhaust a hundred tongues.
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow
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The healthy die first
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The best armor is to keep out of range
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Beware the person with nothing to lose
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Anger can be an expensive luxury
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Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding
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He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter
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He hauls at a long rope who expects another's death.
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To him who is determined it remains only to act
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One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the person ready to die
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
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The devil turns away from a closed door.
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He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not
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When wine sinks, words swim.
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Six feet of earth make us all equal
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Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage
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The man who lives only by hope will die with despair
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Any plan is bad that cannot be changed
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Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
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Silence was never written down
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One may have good eyes and yet see nothing
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He who is guilty believes all men speak ill of him
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves
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He that seeks to have many friends never has any
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He who begins many things finishes but few
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The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour
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By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible
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Better to ask than to go astray
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Let every fox take care of his own tail
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The rich never have to seek out their relatives
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One is never too old to yearn
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The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
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He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by a wolf
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It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor
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A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three
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Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
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At a round table there is no dispute about place
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Years and sins are always more than owned
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If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months
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It is easy to frighten a bull from the window
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He saith little that loveth much
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The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself
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Eggs have no business dancing with stones
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A man should learn to sail in all winds
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All are not saints who go to church
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He who is not impatient is not in love
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There is no worse robber than a bad book
ITALIAN PROVERB
The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted
ITALIAN PROVERB
All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn't sweeten its sting
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To a quick question, give a slow answer
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He who knows little quickly tells it
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It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets
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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot
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To know and not to do is not to know
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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The time to make friends is before you need them.
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Short judgments make long friends.
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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From small beginnings come great things.
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Some will, some don't, so what!
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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Try and trust will move mountains.
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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All sins cast long shadows.
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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A silent mouth is melodious.
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Silence implies consent.
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Shame is worse than death.
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God likes help when helping people.
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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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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Kings have many ears and eyes.
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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
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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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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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The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
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Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
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What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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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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How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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Rest breeds rust.
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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
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If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
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