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He wanted to cure a healthy pig and ended up with a sick one.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

I wonder as I wander

I wonder as I wander out under the sky
How Jesus our Saviour did come for to die
For poor orn'ry people like you and like I.
I wonder as I wander out under the sky.

When Mary birthed Jesus 'twas in a cow's stall...

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Since we didn't say anything, he thought he could do whatever he wanted to.

Proverbs and old sayings Algerian about thinking

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about experience

Don't have the appetite of Miss Julia who, when she had meat, wanted chick peas.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

It will always be rotten for me, said the farmer when they ran out of sacrament wine precisely when he wanted to go forward.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about wine

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