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Here's good advice, as in A word to the wise: don't walk alone here because these streets are not safe at night . A shortening of A word to the wise is enough , as it was put by Roman writers, this phrase in English dates from the mid-1500s.

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A woman's work is never doneA word to the wise is sufficient