The lambskin is not worth the currying.
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Sorrow doesn't kill, but it blights.Russian
As you make your bed, so you will sleep.
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A fool may throw into a well a stone which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
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However much,good you feed the wolf, he still looks at the wood.
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Debt is beautiful after repaid.
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It takes all kinds of trees to make a forest.
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