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1: You can only die once
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2: You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make it drink.
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3: You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy.
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4: You can't put wine in old bottles.
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5: You can't shout fire in a crowded theater
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6: You can't tell a book by its cover.
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7: You can’t get a quart into a pint pot,
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8: You can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds,
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9: You can’t shift an old tree without it dying,
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10: You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
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11: You cannot eat your cake and have it.
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12: You cannot get blood from a stone.
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13: You cannot judge a tree by its bark.
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14: You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
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15: You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.
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16: You cannot make bricks without straw.
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17: You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.
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18: You cannot serve God and Mammon
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19: You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
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20: You cannot wash charcoal white.
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21: You do not fatten a pig by weighing it
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22: You don't get something for nothing.
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23: You must eat a peck of dirt before you die.
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24: You never know what you can do untill you try.
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25: You pays your money and you takes your chances
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