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A miser is ever in want. A small evil may be a great good. A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime. Act quickly, think slowly. Add not fire to fire. Affairs sleep soundly when fortune is present. Don't hear one and judge two. Endeavour to bear the ignorance of fortune with patience. He who has been angry becomes cool again. He who laughs not in the morning, laughs not at noon. Hunger is the teacher of many. I live too near a wood to be scared by owls. If the sun shines while it rains, the devil is beating his mother. In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. In hospitality it is the spirit that counts. It is the men who makes a city. Men prone to tears are good. Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to the child. Nothing will content him who is not content with a little. Poor men's words have little weight. Seize the end and you will hold the middle. The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather. The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small. The net of the sleeper catches fish. The shepherd, even when he becomes a gentleman, smells of lamb. The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words. There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Thinking evil is much the same as doing it. Those who are thirsty drink in silence. To the brave man every land is a native country. Welcome is the best cheer. With a relation eat and drink; but conduct no business with him. Wood that grows warped can never be straightened. Young wood makes a hot fire.
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