Proverbs

When you try to work too quickly, you usually make mistakes.

• Haste makes waste

• If you snooze, you lose

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Make decisions carefully. Think about it first.

• Look before you leap

• Measure twice, cut one

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It’s better to always tell the truth.

• First things first

• Honesty is the best policy

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If you don’t work hard, you’ll never achieve your goal.

• no pain, no gain

• time is money

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to be apart made you think about them even more and increased your feelings of love for them.

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

• Love is salt and sugar

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You should do as you say.

• Practice what you preach

• What's done is done

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

• Flies are attracted to honey

• Vinegar doesn't taste good

•  It is easier to get what you want by flattering people and being polite to them than by making demands

• Honey is sweet

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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.

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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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