There is reason in the roasting of eggs.
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Would you have me serve you, good king, give me the means of living.Portuguese
Iron that is not used soon rusts.
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Send a man of sense on the embassy, and you need not instruct him.
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Mouth of honey, heart of gall.
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The son-in-law's sack is never full.
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Better repair the gutter than the whole house.
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