Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.


Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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O! green bottle come & take my frustrations away,so says the drunk.
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A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.
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What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
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Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once
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Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know.
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like a drop of ink in a glass of milk
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