Without stooping down for the mushroom, you cannot put it in your basket.
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A sin of gold is followed by a punishment of lead.
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Who wasn't [out] in the sea, didn't pray to God.
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From fire to flame.
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Death does not take the old but the ripe.
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Masters are fighting, servants' forelocks are creaking.
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