Gentlemen don’t want to give much and are ashamed to give little.
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Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.Czech
It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing.
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He who looks only at heaven may easily break his nose on earth.
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The first sin makes the bed for the second.
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Long tongue -- short hands.
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