The quills often took the flesh with them.

One debt won’t pay another.

There never came a gatherer but a scatterer came after him.

There’s none for bad shoes like the shoemaker’s wife.

No man ever gave advice but himself were the better for some of it.

A man of learning understands the half-word.

O’Brien’s gift and his two eyes after it (i.e., regretting it).

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