Raw leather will stretch.
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A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.English
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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Better to marry a neighbor than a stranger.
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Absence is a shrew.
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You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.
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Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love 'tis the way.
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