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The early bird catches the worm.

• Birds are good at catching worms

• If you wake up and get to work early, you will succeed

• Getting up early gets you worms for breakfast

• It's better to stay in bed

A penny saved is a penny earned.

• A penny is valuable.
• You can earn pennies.
  You can earn pennies.
• A penny isn't worth much.
• Money not spent is money that is in one's pocket.

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Look before you leap.

• Think before you act.
• Look and then jump.
• Jumping is good exercise
• Looking is important

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Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

• Counting the eggs is more important.
• You should not count on something before it happens
• Chickens are hard to count.
• Waiting for the chickens is hard to do.

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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

• All the eggs don't fit in one basket.
• You need to get a bigger basket.
• Buy smaller eggs.
• Don't put all your prospects into one thing.

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Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

• Babies need to take a bath.

• Keep the dirty water.

• Do not throw away something valuable in your eagerness to get rid of some useless thing associated with it.

• You need to keep your baby.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

• A foolish person spends money carelessly and will soon be penniless.
• You have to part your money in two stacks.
• Fools know how to part money.
• It is better to part from your money soon.

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Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

• Wealthy men are healthy.
• Wise men are healthy.
• Someone who gets enough sleep and startswork early in the day will have a successful life.
• You need to go to bed.

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What is the meaning of 'a beggar can never be bankrupt'?

• People should not be judged by their appearance

• easy come easy go

• bad result comes from bad skill

• When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose

What is the meaning of 'haste makes waste'?

• Doing something too quickly causes mistakes that result in time, effort, material,etc, being wasted

• You soon forget people or things that are no longer present

• Ability to survive in dangerous situation

• Follow the customs in the place where you are there