Trouble is the beginning of disaster.
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Bury truth in a golden coffin, it will break it open.Russian
The cat knows who's meat it has eaten.
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A ruler without a nation is like a flower without the sun.
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The river's reputation ends where the sea begins.
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One can even get used to living hell.
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The sat one doesn't understand the hungry one: for one the soup is too thin, for the other - the pearls are too small.
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