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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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Adversity
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A stumble may prevent a fall.
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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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Advice
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While the doctors consult, the patient dies.
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Age
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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
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Appearance
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Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
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Argument & Debate
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Use soft words and hard arguments.
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Beauty
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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
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Beginnings
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A good beginning makes a good end.
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Cats
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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Children
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
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Conversation
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To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
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Death
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Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
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Death always comes too early or too late.
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
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Deception/Lying
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Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.
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Decisions
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The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.
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Delinquency
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He that seeks trouble never misses.
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Duty
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Never step over one duty to perform another.
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Experience
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
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Family
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A small family is soon provided for.
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Food
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Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.
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Fools, Foolishness
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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
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