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Do not take the thatch from your own roof to buy slates for another man's house.
Irish Proverb
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Often the best way of giving oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has.
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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
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He who took the donkey up to the roof should bring it down.
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