They bow to you when borrowing, you bow to them when collecting.
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What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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The vulture embraced the chicken until its last breath.
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What comes out of one mouth goes into a hundred others.
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No one can take two skins from one ox.
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