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Much is expected where much is given. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1095)
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For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
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The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. (Whatling, 2009) From the Japanese, "deru kugi wa utareru."
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Francis Bacon)
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No means no.
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Lose nothing for want of asking.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. (Manser, 2007 p. 207)
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He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
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Take care of number one.
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Never ask pardon before you are accused.
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. (John Arbuthnot)
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A penny for your thoughts.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair. (Francis Bacon)
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He had need rise early who would please everybody.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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Precepts teach, examples move.
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A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. (Ambrose Bierce)
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All those men have their price. (Robert Walpole)
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.
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Perverts the Prophets, and purloins the Psalms.
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As proud as Lucifer. (14th century)
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