Taking out without putting in, soon comes to the bottom.
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Water washes everything.Portuguese
If you would grow poor without perceiving it, employ workmen and go to sleep.
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He is no friend that eats his own by himself, and mine with me.
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One bird in the hand is worth two flying.
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Better mine than ours.
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Don't leave the high road for a short cut.
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