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There was no way to mend the pen after the goats were lost.
when the tiger ventures from the mountains to the plains, it is bullied by dogs.
That was but one strand of cow hair among nine cows.
She was afraid to burn herself with cold water.
spotted a ship with sour apples on the way.
Amy, so much like Ma, had eaten from frightened hare meat.
Even if an ape wore a golden ring, it was and remained an ugly thing.
Hunger makes raw beans sweet,
He who sits on his butt must also sit on his blisters.”
blind horse could do no damage.”
But I learned that if you do not speak, no one will ever hear you.”
“I did not mean to throw stones down a well at you.”
toad lusting after a swan’s flesh,
thunder from a clear sky.
as if we saw water burning.
“Dumb birds must start flying early.”
She has always drawn Sylvie with black coal.”
“When you ride a tiger, you must not try to get off halfway.”
“When it comes to being naughty, you are a floppy dick in rosewater.
“When the sandpiper and the clam oppose each other, it is the fisherman who benefits.”
if dogs could pray, it would rain bones.”
see a splinter in someone else’s eye but missed the wooden beam in his own.
But those who wish to eat honey must suffer the sting of the bees.
as far as the stars were from the frog at the bottom of a well, as
chicken talking to a duck.
as delicious as an angel peeing on your tongue.”
Lukas froze with his
Remember, high trees are attacked by strong winds.”
sighed. “In the land of the blind, she with one eye is queen.”
“It is hard to catch hares with unwilling dogs,”
Those who associate with dogs get fleas.”
thunder from a clear
Even a donkey did not stumble over the same stone twice. All of my
