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Unit 1 What's in a name?

Unit 2 Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Unit 3 Every picture tells a story.

Unit 4 Practice makes perfect.

Unit 5 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Unit 6 Flattery will get you everywhere.

Unit 7 You cannot have your cake and eat it.

Unit 8 There is a time and place for everything.

Unit 9 The early bird catches the worm.

Unit 10 All work and no play makes Jacka dull boy.

Unit 11 Many hands make light work.

Unit 12 Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Unit 13 In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Unit 14 Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

Unit 15 Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

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