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Common fame is seldom to blame.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Common fame seldom lies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Common Goods, no goods.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Communities begin by building their kitchen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Company in distress makes trouble less.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Comparison is not proof.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Compete not with a friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Compete, don't envy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabian)
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Complain to one who can help you.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yugoslav)
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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Conceal not your secret from your friend, or you deserve to lose
him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Concealed goodness is a sort of vice.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Confess and be hanged.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Confessed faults are half mended.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Scottish)
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Confession is good for the soul.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Scottish)
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Confession is the first step to repentance.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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Confidence begets confidence.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain
in a bag with a hole.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African)
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Confound those who have anticipated us in what we would have
said!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Conquerors are kings; the beaten are bandits.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Conscience betrays guilt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Conscience is as a thousand witnesses.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Conscience is the chamber of justice.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Consider how long the winter will last.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Consideration is the parent of wisdom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Consideration should be shown to a novice.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Consolation, for the condemned, is to be one of many.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Constant dripping wears away the rock.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Constant dropping wears away a stone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Constant dropping wears the stone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Constant occupation prevents temptation.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Consult with your pillow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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Contrasts mutually set off each other.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Contrivance is better than force.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Conversation ministers to a mind diseased.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Conviviality reveals secrets.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Copper begets copper, and not ()the labour of) men's bones.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be
damned.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Correct a wise man, and he will be grateful; correct a fool, and
he will not only give a deaf ear, but send you off with a flea in
your ear.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Correction bringeth fruit.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Correction is good when administered in time.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Corsair against corsair nothing is got but empty casks.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Corsairs against corsairs, there is nothing to win but empty
barrels.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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