When the healthy dog fights with a mad dog, it is the ears of the healthy one that are bitten off.
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Dust does not rise because a dog-flea hops.Burmese
Once the cattle have been split up, then the tiger strikes.
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There is no cure for an unknown illness.
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The least boy always carries the biggest fiddle.
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Spread the word of a Psalm and it becomes a popular song.
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He who carries the word "no" with him will never be poor even when he is old.
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