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The constitution is paper, bayonets are steel.
Haitian Proverb
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If you had teeth of steel, you could eat iron coconuts.
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A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.
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The hammer shatters glass but hardens steel.
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A hammer will shatter glass yet it can forge steel.
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It was smooth on paper, but we've forgotten about ravines.
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