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The biter is often bit.... >>

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.... >>

Other Proverbs

Play's gude, while it is play.... (Spanish) >>

The golden age never was the present age.... (English) >>

If the lion's skill will not do, we must sew on that of the ... (Latin) >>

Least said is soonest mended.... (English) >>

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.... (English) >>

He was born on a Sunday, he likes work ready done.

- French Proverb