Hunger looks in at the industrious man’s door but dares not enter.
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Mother's love is ever in its spring.French
No good dog barks without reason.
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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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A stingy man is always poor.
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If the seawater were hotter we could catch boiled fish.
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Good comes to better, and better to bad.
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