The most disorderly students make the most pious preachers.
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As princes fiddle, subjects must dance.German
Between the anvil and the hammer.
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Had I known is a poor man.
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The eye is bigger than the belly.
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After dinner stand a while, or walk nearly half a mile.
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It is easy to help him, who is willing to be helped.
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