When you are sick you promise a goat, but when you are well again make do with a chicken.
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Choose your neighbors before you buy your house.
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The woman is cold water that kills you; deep water that you drown in.
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A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you.
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The rat cannot call the cat to account.
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Hurrying and worrying are not the same as strength.
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