Many open a door to shut a window.
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Great weights may hang on small wires.Dutch
When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter.
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One scabby sheep infects the whole flock.
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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
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Tender surgeons make foul wounds.
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He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns.
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