If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron.
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God keep you from "It is too late."Spanish
He is always right who suspects that he is always wrong.
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Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.
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One cannot blow and swallow at the same time.
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Do not lose honour through fear.
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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
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