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• You can’t fatten the hog on the day of the county fair.

• Problems and difficulties are just opportunities dressed in work clothes.

• It is a foolish farmer who argues with his ox.

• You can’t make a silk purse out of a hog’s ear.

• Even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally.

• Any port in a storm.

• Occasionally even a drifting boat will find its way to safe harbor