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A short halter for a greedy horse.
↗Meaning: An appetite that takes too much calls for an appropriate limit. The horse and halter offer an image of managing excess, without making restraint a licence to control other people harshly.
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Moderation.
Choosing proportion and balance in what is sought, supplied or repeated. These editorial selections question excess without prescribing one universal amount or confusing reasonable restraint with deprivation. Connections follow agent-reviewed meanings, rather than source word matching. Reviewed editorial meanings may also connect entries to this topic; those assignments are labelled separately from word matching.
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Little bird, little nest.
↗Meaning: The scale of a provision can fit the need it serves. The little bird and nest invite proportionate choices, without requiring small ambitions or accepting inadequate shelter and resources.
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A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real’s worth of paper.
↗Meaning: The effort spent pursuing a small dispute can exceed what is at stake. The two money names and the paper image direct attention to the cost of the process, not only the disputed amount.