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A chattering bird builds no nest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Cameroonian)
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A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Cameroonian)
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A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it
hatches.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African)
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A chicken is hatched even from such a well-sealed thing as an
egg.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A child must creep until it learns to walk.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A child of a year old sucks milk from the heel.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A child's back must be bent early.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his
mother puts into his palm.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African)
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A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby
leaves a mark.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A child's sorrow is short-lived.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A child's tear rends the heavens.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A chip off the old block.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A chip on the shoulder indicates wood higher up.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A church stone drops gold.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Galician)
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A churl knows not the work of spurs (i.e., honour).
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A churl never liked a gentleman.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A civil question deserves a civil answer.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A clean hand moves freely through the land.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A clean mouth and honest hand, will take a man through any land.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A clear bargain, a dear friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A clear conscience is a good pillow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A clear conscience is a wall of brass.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A clever man's inheritance is found in every country.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little
ones into none at all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt
two foxes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A cloak is not made for a single shower of rain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A close mouth and open eyes never did any one harm.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A close mouth catcheth no flies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A cloth is not woven from a single thread.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A clown enriched knows neither relation nor friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A cold April the barn will fill.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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A colt is good for nothing if it does not break its halter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A comb becomes bad when it hurts you.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African)
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A combined defence is the safest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A common blot is held no stain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A common shipwreck is a consolation to all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A constant guest is never welcome.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A contented ass enjoys a long life.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A contented man is always rich.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A contented mind is a continual feast.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A coral reef hardens into land.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Hawaiian)
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A cough assists a musician when he hesitates.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A cough will stick longer by a horse than a peck of oats.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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