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Other Proverbs

Go not every evening to your brother's house.... (Spanish) >>

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He who puts up with insult invites injury... (Italian) >>

He who begins badly, ends badly.... (Spanish) >>

Fish or cut bait... (Greek) >>

Be a horse ever so well shod, he may slip.

- French Proverb