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• Of him who eats the sultan’s broth, the lips will be scalded, should it be even at a very distant time.

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• When wert thou changed into a queen, pawn ?

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• Man is only man by his money.

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• Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed person who is an oculist.

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• Who is able to restore (what was) yesterday, or to plaster over the rays of the sun ?

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• He who loves a thing often talks of it.

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• Him whom goodness cannot mend, evil will not mend.

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• He who eats a hen of the sultan will return her to him a cow.

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• Of him whose cook is a beetle, what may not be the dishes ?

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• He who does not taste the (best part of the) meat likes the lungs.

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• It is nothing but the fire of the Magi ans.

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• He who is not satisfied with the government of Moses, will he satisfied with the government of Pharaoh.

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• I have no cows, nor do I set myself up as a sorcerer.

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• He who is fatigued shall repose (afterwards).

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• Of  that person at whose wedding thou dost not eat, eat at the funeral.

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• He who has a head at the sellers of sheep’s heads, does not sleep at night.

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• The dust alone can fill the eye of man.

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• There is not in the ferry boat any (gratis or) for God’s sake.

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• After Abbdddn no village remains (or exists).

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