If you ask for too much at once, you will come home with an empty bag.
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Check before you bite if it is bread or a stone.Croatian
Feed your horse as a friend, mount him as an enemy.
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Better be in debt than in shame.
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Truth's violinist is always beaten with his own bow.
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No solutions without discussions.
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It is better to work in your own land than to count your money abroad.
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