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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. Keep the bone and the dog will follow. Choose your company before you go drinking. A little dog can start a hare but it takes a big one to catch it. Often have the likely failed and the unlikely prospered. If you want to know me, come and live with me. Good luck is better than early rising. Cleaning the house will not pay the rent. A house divided will soon fall. Pulling the devil by the leg is a bad grip. Your son is your son until he marries but your daughter is your daughter until you die. Come seldom, come welcome. Law is costly; shake hands and be friends. To a man prepared for war, peace is assured. A good beginning is half the work. Laziness is a load. Sickness is the physician's feast. Patience conquers destiny. Questioning is the door of knowledge. Even a good horse cannot keep running always. The person with least knowledge talks most. God does not like the lying tongue. Don't refuse to sell your horse for the sake of a crown. Marry in haste and be sorry at your leisure. A lamb when carried far becomes as burdensome as a sheep. A good retreat is better than a poor defense. No war is more bitter than the war of friends, but it does not last long. Do not show your teeth until you can bite. He is not wise who will not be instructed. A woman without a baby has no excuse for sitting down. Drunkenness and anger speak truthfully. It was not on one foot that St. Patrick came to Ireland. If the potato misses, Ireland's beaten. The greedy man stores all but friendship.
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