It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.
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When every one says you are an ass, bray.Spanish
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
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He who has a good wife can bear any evil.
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It takes taste to account for taste.
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Play with the fool at home, and he will play with you abroad.
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If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
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