A man of straw needs a woman of gold.
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He who does not when he can, cannot when he will.
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If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg.
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Six feet of earth will make us all equal.
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It is the petty expenses that empty the purse.
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A woman's place is in the home.
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