If you play with fire you get burned.
More Traditional Proverbs:
Dip your tongue in wisdom, then give counselTraditional
Whoever is fond of cream should take the cow around with him.
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A tree does not fall at it's first cut
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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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Too much zeal is a bad soldier who fires before the word of command
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That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice.
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