The fish always stinks from the head downwards.
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It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
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You need sharp axes for knotty trees.
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No one can take two skins from one ox.
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The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder.
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The poorer, the more generous.
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