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A solitary man is either a brute or an angel.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A son-in-law's friendship is a winter's sun.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A sooty chimney costs many a beef-steak.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A sow is always dreaming of bran.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A sow may find an acorn as well as a hog.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A sow may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A sow prefers bran to roses.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut tree,
The more you beat 'em the better they be.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A spark may raise
An awful blaze.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that flieth by.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A sparrow in hand is worth more than a vulture flying.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A sparrow in the hand is better than a bustard on the wing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A sparrow in the hand is better than a crane on the wing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the roof.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the wing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A sparrow suffers as much when it breaks its leg as does a
Flanders horse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A spot shows most on the finest cloth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A starved town is soon forced to surrender.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A stepmother has a hard hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A stern chase is a long chase.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A stick is a peacemaker.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A stick is soon found to beat a dog.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A still sow eats up all the draff.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A still tongue makes a wise head.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A still tongue maketh a wise head.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A stingy man is always poor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A stitch in time saves nine.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Moroccan)
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A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the
wrong time.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
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A store-house of evil is a woman if she is depraved.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A stout heart breaks ill fortune.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A stout heart overcomes ill fortune.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A stout heart tempers adversity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A stranger has big eyes but sees nothing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African)
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A stream cannot rise about its source.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African)
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A strong remedy for evils is ignorance of them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A stumble is not a fall.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Haitian)
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A stumble may prevent a fall.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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A stupid act entails doing the work twice over.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Burmese)
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A Sunday's child never dies of the plague.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A surgeon tries his experiments on the heads of orphans.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A suspicious mind sees everything on the dark side.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a
silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A sword anointed with honey.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A sword of lead in a scabbard of ivory.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A table friend is changeable.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A tale never loses in the telling.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Scottish)
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A talkative bird will not build a nest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (West African)
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A tattler is war than a thief.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (West African)
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