Water after does not quench a fire at hand.
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What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?Italian
Rather have a little one for your friend, than a great one for your enemy.
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Where remedies are needed, sighing avails not.
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He is wise who learns at another's cost.
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Credit is dead, bad pay killed it.
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A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.
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