Close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
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Noble birth is a poor dish at table.English
The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for things we need not, we often lose what we have.]
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Money spent on brain is never spent in vain.
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Marry your like.
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He that will be rich before night, may be hanged before noon.
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Cross the stream where it is the shallowest.
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