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A dealer in onions is a good judge of scallions.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A dealer in rubbish sounds the praises of rubbish.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A defeated wrestler is not tired of wrestling.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Turkish)
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A delightful hallucination.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A depraved mind never comes to good.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A determined heart will not be counselled.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A devil with fine manners can still carry you only to hell.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Darkovan)
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A devotee's face, and a cat's claws.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A different man, a different taste.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Greek)
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A diligent man ever finds that something remains to be done.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A dimple in the chin; a devil within.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A disease known is half cured.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A dissimilarity of pursuits dissolves friendship.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor alone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A dog as he sleeps barks as if on the track of the hare.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not
notice them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A dog in desperation will leap over a wall.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A dog in the manger, that neither eats nor lets others eat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A dog is a dog whatever his colour.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A dog is a man's best friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (American)
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A dog is never offended at being pelted with bones.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A dog is worthy of his food.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A dog may look at a bishop.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A dog never bit me but I had some of his hair.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A dog that bites silently. [An insidious tradcuer. He would
kill you with an air-gun.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A dog that has once tasted the flesh cannot be kept from the
skin.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A dog that will fetch a bone will carry a bone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A dog which has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A dog with a bone knows no friends.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A dog with two homes is never any good.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A dog without teeth will also attack a bone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A dog won't forsake his master because of poverty; a son never
deserts his mother because of her homely appearance.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A donkey always says thank you with a kick.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Kenyan)
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A donkey is known by his ears.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A door must be either shut or open.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A door must either be open or shut.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (American)
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A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A drink is shorter than a tale.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A dripping June sets all in tune.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A drop hollows out a stone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A drop of luck is worth a cask of wisdom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A drop of water breaks a stone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A drowning man clings to a blade of grass.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A drowning man will catch at a straw.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A drowning man would catch at razors.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone. [Let a
slumbering evil rest where it is.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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