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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.

A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time.

In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds.

Go and wake up your luck.

When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Thinking is the essence of wisdom.

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.

By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.

Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.