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Not only can water float a boat, it can sink it also

One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities

One’s shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon

One step at a time

One step at a time is good walking

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire

Out of a dog’s mouth will never come ivory tusks

Plant the crab-tree where you will it will never bear pippins

Politics makes strange bedfellows

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