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PROVERBS.
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Patience is the key of consolation.

Continually, continually, the cord cuts the stone.

When two elephants struggle it is the grass that suffers.

Use your clay while it is wet.

He that is drunk with wine gets sober, he that is drunk with wealth does not.

What bites is in your own clothes.

Loud lamentations are not becoming in mourning.

A sand-fly can get through anything.

He has fallen into a well.