Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
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Love, a cough, and smoke, are hard to hide.
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Bad is the wool that cannot be died.
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He that would be ill served should keep plenty of servants.
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No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.
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An ass's trot does not last long.
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