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Business before pleasure.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Bustle is not industry.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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But for all that the honest man has not got his purse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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But may not truth in laughing guise be dressed?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice,
wine, and women, these three have made me poor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Butter spoils no meat, and moderation injures no cause.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Buy him at his own price and sell him at yours and you'll make no
bargain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Buy the bed of a great debtor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Buy when it is market time.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Buy your greyhound, don't rear him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Buy your neighbour's ox, and woo your neighbour's daughter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Buyers want a hundred eyes, sellers none.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Buyers want a hundred eyes, sellers only one.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Buying is cheaper than asking.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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By a brave endurance of unavoidable evils, we conquer them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a
hair.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
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By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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By beating love decays.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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By biting and scratching cats and dogs come together.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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By candle-light a goat looks like a lady.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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By committing foolish acts, one learns wisdom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Singhalese)
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By dint of going wrong all will come right.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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By doing nothing men learn to do evil.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By fair means or foul.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By falling we earn to go safely.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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By falling we learn to go safely.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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By getting angry, you show you are wrong.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
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By gnawing skin a dog learns to eat leather.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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By going gains the mill, and not by standing still.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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By good means or bad.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By good nature and kindness even fierce spirits become tractable.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By hook or by crook.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By hook or crook.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By labour fire is got out of a stone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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By lamplight every country wench seems handsome.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By much laughter you detect the fool.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By night all cats are black.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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By night all cats are grey.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, French, German)
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By perseverance the Greeks reached Troy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By pleasing, while we instruct.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By repeated blows even the oak is felled.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By slow degrees the bird builds his nest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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By speedy, not by slow measures.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By submitting to an old insult you invite a new one.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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By telling our woes we often assuage them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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By the familiarity of the master the servant is spoilt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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