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Given the MEANING, identify the PROVERB

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1.

People take advantage when the person in charge is absent.

  When the cat is away the mice will play.

  Too many cooks spoil the broth.

  You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

  You cannot have your cake and eat it.

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2.

Pain or grief diminish or disappear with the passage of time.

  Time is a great healer.

  Where there's a will there's a way.

  The wish is father to the thought.

  You cannot have your cake and eat it.

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3.

It is chaotic for too many people to do the same job at the same time.

  Nothing venture, nothing gain.

  A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

  Variety is the spice of life.

  Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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4.

It is better to be unaware of something that will bring unhappiness.

  Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise.

  Too many cooks spoil the broth.

  Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

  Touch pitch and be defiled.

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5.

A good start to a task leads to its easy and successful completion.

  Beauty is but skin deep.

  Touch pitch and be defiled.

  Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

  Well begun is half done.

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6.

Unalloyed happiness is impossible, because joy and sorrow go together.

  You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.

  You cannot have your cake and eat it.

  Talk of the devil and the devil appears.

  There is no rose without a thorn.

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7.

It is beneficial when persons reason jointly and make up for each other's deficiencies.

  Two heads are better than one.

  Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

  Time and tide wait for no man.

  United we stand, divided we fall.

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