If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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Excess of obligations may lose a friend.Latin
It is a misery to be born, a punishment to live, and a trouble to die.
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He talks to a dead man.
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It is bad to contend about trifles.
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Hard by a river he digs a well.
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A mouse in time may bite in two a cable.
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