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A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury
has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A courtier should be without feeling and without honour.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A cow does not know what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A cow from afar gives plenty of milk.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A cow is not called dappled unless she has a spot.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A coward has no scar.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Zimbabwean)
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A coward often deals a mortal blow to the brave.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A coward's fear may make a coward valiant.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A crab does not beget a bird.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Ghanaian)
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A cracked bell can never sound well.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Ghanaian)
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A cracked bell will never be sound.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A cracked pot never fell off the hook.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A crazy vessel never falls from the hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Romanian)
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A creaking door hangs longest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Romanian)
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A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A crooked log is not to be straightened.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A crooked log makes a good fire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A cross-grained woman and a snappish dog take care of the house.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A crow is never the whiter for often washing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A crow thinks her own bird fairest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A crowd is not company.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A crown is no cure for the headache.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German, Italian)
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A cry, a sniff, and all comes to naught.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Maltese)
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A cup must be bitter that a smile will not sweeten.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Maltese)
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A cur's tail grows fast.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A curse will not strike out an eye, unless the fist go with it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A cursed cur should be short tied.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A customary railer is the devil's bagpipe, which the world
danceth after.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the
cut of the tongue does not.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African)
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A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A daily guest is a thief in the kitchen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A dainty stomach beggars the purse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A day after the fair.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A day's work--getting started.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Gaelic)
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A dead man does not make war.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A dead man does not speak.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A dead man has neither relations nor friends.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A dead mouse feels no cold.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A deaf auditor makes a crazy answerer.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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