If you leave your place, you lose it.
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When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.Spanish
Where the goat leaps, leaps that which sucks her.
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To him that watches, everything is revealed.
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Call no man happy till he dies.
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It fares ill with the house where the spinning-wheel commands the sword.
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God sends cold after clothes.
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