It’s better who God helps than who early arouses.
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Mouth from honey, heart of gall.Portuguese
If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again.
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Better be killed by robbers than by the kick of an ass.
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Before you marry reflect, for it is a knot you cannot untie.
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Ill befal the belly that forgets eaten bread.
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Ill fares the young bird in the urchin's hand.
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