Water it down.
More Traditional Proverbs:
You can not pick a bald chickenTraditional
To the raven her own chick is white.
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Adaptability second only to integrity.
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Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand.
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An answer if profitable is in proportion to the intensity of the quest.
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Pecunia, si uti scis, ancilla est si nescis, domina If you can use money, money is your slave if you can't, money is your master
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