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Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing.
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A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.
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If your enemy is up to his waist in water, give him your hand; if the water reaches his shoulders, stand on his head.
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He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothing, and at forty has nothing, will lead a wretched old age.
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If it is good then the deed is more important than the intention; if it's bad then the intention is worse than the deed.
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If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.
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Whether it be so or not, husband, put on your hood. (He had told her there was a new law that every man with horns should wear a hood.)
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He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich, or prudent.
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As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a good daughter-in-law.
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At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.
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