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A mistake is no reckoning.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A modest dog seldom grows fat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A monk in his cloister, a fish in the water, a thief in the
gallows.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A monkey is not to be caught in a trap.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A Montgomery division: all on one side, nothing on the other.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A morsel eaten gains no friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A morsel eaten selfishly does not gain a friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A mouse in pitch. [A man engaged in useless and perplexing
inquiries.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A mouse in time may bite in two a cable.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A mouse may help a lion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a castle wall.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A mouse will scare a thief.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A mouth that praises and a hand that kills.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabic)
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A muffled cat is no good mouser.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A muffled cat never caught a mouse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A mule and a woman do what is expected of them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A mute bird makes no omen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A nail secures the horse-shoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the
man, the man the castle, and the castle the whole land.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A nation's treasure: scholars.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A naughty child must be roughly rocked.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A necessary lie is harmless.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A neighbour's eye is full of jealousy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A net will catch more than a pole.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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A new broom is good for three days.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A new net won't catch an old bird.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A noble prince or king never has a coin to bless himself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A nobleman's calf does not know how a butcher kills.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Korean)
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A nobody to-day, a prince to-morrow. [The reverse of "To-day a
man, to-morrow a mouse."]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A noisy cow gives little milk.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Polish)
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A north wind has no corn, and a poor man no friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A pair of light shoes is not all that is needed for dancing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A parasite cannot live alone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African Ovambo)
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A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
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A peacock has too little in its head, too much in its tail.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Swedish)
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A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time
with his mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A peg for every hole.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A penny in time is as good as a dollar.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A penny is a lot of money--if you haven't got a penny.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A penny is sometimes better spent than spared.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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