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Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.
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By labor fire is got out of stone.
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In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress.
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
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Prevention is better than cure.
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Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
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Don't throw away your old shoes until you have got new ones.
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He who throws a ball should expect it back.
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Faith is good, but it is better to check.
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He sleeps with the bride.
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It are not the bad apples that wasps eat.
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You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs
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One should not hatch all eggs under the same hen.
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To get eggs there must be some cackling
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The soup is never eaten as hot as it was served.
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You can not pick a bald chicken
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One should not wake a sleeping dog.
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One can bend young twigs, not old trees.
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You should shave your sheep when they have wool.
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It is better to confess under the gallows, then not at all
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The geese are fed, but you have to pluck them
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It is better to remove the beam from your eye, before you remove the splinter from someone elses.
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Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it.
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Hunger makes raw beans taste sweet.
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To eat from both shores
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You can't bake an omelet without breaking an egg
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Cucumbers are like virgins, they do not keep long
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Neighbours grass is always greener.
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Visitors and fish, remain fresh for 3 days.
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He is in beans, but picks peas
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He has a hart of gold
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If Moses is not coming to the mountain, then the mountain will come to Moses
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There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
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Time slides like sand through your fingers.
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When the cat is not home, the mice will dance on the table.
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He waits long that waits for another man's death
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To promise a lot, and give a litte, make a fool live happily.
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If the cock does not crow before sunset,it either will rain the next day, or the cock is dead.
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It is lonely at the top.
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He who sow wind, will harvest storm
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No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains
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Honesty is the soul of business
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Opportunity creates desire.
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm
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Anger is a short madness
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Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.
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A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
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A beautiful woman is never exclusive.
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Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free
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A tree does not fall at it's first cut
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Attack makes the best defense
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Patience and grass will become milk.
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A beautiful woman and a wooden boat are very expensive in maintenance.
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He who never tickles himself, never laughs
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He who has butter on his head, should stay out of the sun.
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A young bum, makes an old beggar.
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Pick the rose, not the thorns
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Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
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Many become brave when the fiend flees.
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The hunt is better then the prey.
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The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor
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Even clean apples can be sour.
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To grab a cow by the horns
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Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
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We grow too soon old and too late smart
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Better lose the anchor than the whole ship
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No matter how fast a lie is, the truth will catch up with her.
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You can't share loneliness.
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The tree of revenge does not carry fruit
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Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain
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Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong
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It is better to remove the weeds from your own garden, before you start with your neighbours.
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When you want to marry a prince you will have to kiss many frogs.
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When two quarrel, both are to blame
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Many small streams make one big river.
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Pick the goose as long as it has feathers
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A donkey usually does not hit his foot twice to the same stone.
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Barking dogs won't bite.
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We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
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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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