From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor smaller


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Unwilling service earns no thanks.
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Many have too much, but none enough.
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
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The nobler the blood the less the pride.
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An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
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Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.
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Wise care keeps what it has gained.
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Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.
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Slander expires at a good woman's door.
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Opportunity creates desire.
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There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
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Sight before hearsay.
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Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
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Fish and guests smell at three days old.
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Wise men do not quarrel with each other.
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The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
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Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
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Your friendship is your needs answered.
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The road to a friend's house is never long.
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Blame is a lazy man's wages.
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Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.
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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
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Act honestly, and answer boldly.
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Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair.
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
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Even a small star shines in the darkness.
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He who would leap high must take a long run.
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He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
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A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
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Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him
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Ask advice only of your equals.
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He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
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He is most cheated who cheats himself.
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Bad is never good until worse happens.
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A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
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If there is room in your hart there is room in your house
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He who feeds the hen ought to have the egg
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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.
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It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood
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The greater the fear the nearer the danger
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He who flies proves himself guilty
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A bad hair cut is two people's shame
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It is cowardly to fly from a living enemy or to abuse a dead one
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Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them
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They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them
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The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage
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God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests
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Gifts should be handed, not thrown
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A bad tree does not yield good apples
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If the beard were all, goats could preach
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One should speak little with others and much with oneself
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Don't sail out farther than you can row back
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No man limps because another is hurt
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Speech is oft repented, silence never
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No one can be caught in places he does not visit
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Better no law than law not enforced
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He knows the water best who has waded through it
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Better the child cry than the old man.
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If you can keep yourself with poverty you have no need of riches
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Tell nothing to thy friend which thy enemy may not know
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A bad horse eats as much as a good one
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He who gives to me teaches me to give.
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He who would leap far must first take a long run
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Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
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He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning
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It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune
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Bad is never good until worse happens
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Act honestly, and answer boldly
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The best advice is found on the pillow
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Shared sorrow is half sorrow
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Though your enemy is the size of an ant, regard him as an elephant
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill
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A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent
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He must be pure who would blame another
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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor
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He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going 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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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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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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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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Respect starts with yourself.
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He who is near the Church is often far from God.
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
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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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By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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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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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
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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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There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
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Live to live and you will learn to live.
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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
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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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Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
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Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
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Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
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Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
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Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
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None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Practice is the best master.
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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
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Force without forecast is to little avail.
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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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