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If you don't hope, you won't be crushed.442.
If you don't know by age twenty, don't do by age thrity, don't have by age forty, you will never know, never do, and never have.443.
If you don't like dogs, you don't like people.444.
If you don't plant, you get nothing.445.
If you don't want anyone to take your place, don't ever show that you're frightened.446.
If you don't want it to be known, don't do it.447.
If you don't want to attract attention, don't start something new.448.
If you drink a belly full you'll regret it all day.449.
If you engage in a business you don't understand, your money will fly away.450.
If you give your goods without a pledge, you show little inventiveness.451.
If you go fishing and catch nothing, go to the henhouse and get eggs.452.
If you have a business you have to smile at everyone.453.
If you have to get drunk, you must do it with good wine.454.
If you have to have animals in your house, don't have either a dog or a cat with a red coat.455.
If you invest a lot but don't maintain it, you won't even harvest enough to re-seed.456.
If you leave the safe open even a saint will sin.457.
If you marry you'll suffer in your youth, if you don't marry you'll suffer in your old age.458.
If you prune in April you'll fill your barrels not with wine, but with water.459.
If you prune in March you're either a jackass or crazy.460.
If you put seeds where there are rushes you won't gather toasties.