The early bird catches the worm.

• Birds are good at catching worms
•  If you wake up and get to work early, you willsucceed
• Getting up early gets you worms for breakfast
• It's better to stay in bed

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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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Where there's a will, there's a way.

• Boys named Will know the way
• There's always a way to find Will.
• It's hard to find Will.
• If you are determined enough, you can find a way to do anything.

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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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All's well that ends well.

• If you feel well and the end, you will have a penny saved.
• Feeling well is important to feel well.
• If you start today, you'll finish tomorrow.
• Problems that occur along the way do not matter as long as the outcome is happy. 

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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.  It's a duck.

• Something is exactly what it seems to be.
• Ducks to a lot of walking.
• Somethings look like ducks.
• If you quack, you're a duck.

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Curiosity killed the .........

• rat
• bat
• cat
• cab

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Better ....................... than never.

• safe
• delayed
• now
• late

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