It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
It takes one to know one
It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
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