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• Where people are promising much to you, bring a small bag. • A greedy father has thieves for children. • The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man from winning glory for himself.
• Do not measure the wolf's tail till he is dead. • Solitude is full of God.
• To set fire to a church is not so bad as to speak ill of a virgin. • What goes around comes around.
• Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. • He who drinks on credit, gets drunk twice. • Jealousy and fear have big eyes. • A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the branch. • It is better to be threatened by the sword of a Turk than by the pen of a German.
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