Give a loaf, and beg a shive.
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Gain has a pleasant odour, come whence it will.
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A small hatchet fells a great oak.
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Taking out without putting in, soon comes to the bottom.
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You will not see many with green eyes.
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Let every man look to the bread upon which he must depend.
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