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A book is a garden carried in the pocket.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabian)
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabian)
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A book that remains shut, is but a block.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabian)
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A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and
prohibition turns one reader into three.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A boor remains a boor, though he sleep on silken bolsters.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A borrowed horse and your own spurs make short miles.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A bow long bent at length waxeth weak.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A bow too much bent is broken.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A boy's love is water in a sieve.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A brain is worth little without a tongue.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A brave man who climbs trees is food for their roots.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Maaori)
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A braying ass eats little hay.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just
bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and
continually beating her.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A brilliant daughter make a brittle wife.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
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A broken sleeve holdeth the arm back.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
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A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A buffeting threatened is never well given.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A bully is always a coward.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German)
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A burnt child fears the fire, and a bitten child fears a dog.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A busybody is always malevolent.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A cake eaten in peace, is worth two in trouble.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A calm portends a storm.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A canoe does not know who is king. When it turns over, everyone
gets wet.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Madagasy)
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A capon eight months old is fit for a king's table.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese, Spanish)
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A captive they insult with impunity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A cat always knows whose meat it eats.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Congolese)
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A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A cat in gloves catches no mice.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A cat is a lion to mouse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A cat may go to a monastery, but she still remains a cat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A cat may look at a king.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German)
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A cat pent up becomes a lion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A cat that meweth much catcheth but few mice.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A cautious man will observe the indications of character which
nature reveals in others.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A chair unsound
Soon finds the ground.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A chameleon does not leave one tree until he is sure of another.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabic)
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A change is as good as a rest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabic)
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