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A great dowry, a bed full of brambles.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A great estate is not gotten in a few hours.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A great lance-thrust to a dead Moor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A great leap gives a great shake.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A great liar has need of good memory.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A great man will not trample on a worm, nor sneak to an emperor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A great man's entreaty is a command.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A great position entails great responsibility.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A great talker is a great liar.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A great thrust of a lance at a dead Moor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A greedy father has thieves for children.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Serbian)
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A greedy man God hates.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Serbian)
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A greedy mill grinds all kinds of corn.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A green Yule makes a fat churchyard.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A gross belly does not produce a refined mind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A guest and a fish after three days are poison.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A guest and a fish stink in three days.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)
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A guest has not to thank the host, but the host the guest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Polish)
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A guest should not remain for ever a guest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A guest, like a fish, stinks the third day.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A hair casts its shadow on the ground.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A hair of the dog cures the bite.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A half truth is a whole lie.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A half-truth is a whole lie.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Jewish)
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A handful of good life is better than seven barrels of learning.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A handful of might is better than a sack full of right.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A handful of trade, a handful of gold.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French, Portuguese, Spanish)
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A handsome man is not quite poor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A handsome shoe often pinches the feet.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A handsome woman is either silly or vain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A hangman is a good trade, he doth his work by daylight.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A happy heart is better than a full purse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A hard bit does not make the better horse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A hard knot requires a hard wedge.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A hard life but a healthy one.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A hare is like an ass in the length of its ears, yet it is not
its son.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (West African)
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A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A hasty man never wants woe.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A hawk kills because it is his nature; a man because it is his
pleasure.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Darkovan)
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A hawk's marriage: the hen is the better bird.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A head is not to be cut off because it is scabby.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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