A seat in the council is honour without profit.
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You can't make horn of a pig's tail.
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What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
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No one is content with his lot.
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Under the sackcloth there is something else.
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Conceal not your secret from your friend, or you deserve to lose him.
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