For one that is missing there's no spoiling a wedding.
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Promises are like pie-crusts, made to be broken.
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There are black sheep in every flock.
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An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles.
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Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.
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Borrowed garments never fit well.
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A man cannot give What he hasn't got.
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Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth.
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When the pig has had a belly full, it upsets the trough.
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A diamond is valuable, though it lie on a dunghill.
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A great ship asks deep waters.
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They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
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A cock is bold on his own dunghill.
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He that has no money, needs no purse.
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Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heir.
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The camel going to seek horns, lost his ears.
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An unfortunate man would be drowned in a tea-cup.
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Hawks will not pick out hawks' eyes.
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He that promises too much, means nothing.
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An old ox makes a straight furrow.
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