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If you would be well served, serve yourself

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If you would be well served, serve yourself.

Prov. You should do things for yourself, since you cannot trust other people to do them exactly the way you want. I would never hire a maid, because a maid wouldn't clean things the way I want them cleaned. Like they say: if you would be well served, serve yourself.

See also: if, serve, well