You can bend an alder-tree, if you do it gradually.
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You cannot throw a word out of a song.
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Until you have smoked out the bees, you can't eat the honey.
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Every sandpiper praises his own swamp.
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He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.
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For ill do well, Then fear not hell.
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