To resist with hand and tooth.
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When the tree falls everyone runs to cut the branches.Dutch
It is bad marketing with empty pockets.
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It is a grief to one beggar that another stands at the door.
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Clothes make the man.
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It's good to watch the rain from a dry standpoint.
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He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
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