Further from the eye – closer to the heart.
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Everyone loves the tree that gives him shelter.
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He makes the bed soft, yet it's hard to sleep on.
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Nobody goes to another monastery with one's own charter.
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In a fight the rich man tries to save his face, the poor man his coat.
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Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once.
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