Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
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With one foot in the grave.German
When the root is worthless, so is the tree.
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One man knocks in the nail, and another hangs his hat on it.
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As the master, so the work.
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What bird so white as mine? says the crow.
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A man, a word; a word, a man.
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