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Don't make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly....
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To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from Sai...
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I know by my own pot how the others boil....
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw....
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'Twixt the cup and the lip there's many a slip....
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Our last garment is made without pockets....
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In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse....
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Dance to the tune that is played....
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Better is rule than rent....
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He who delays, gathers....
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A fine girl and a tattered gown always find something to hook the them.
- French Proverb