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To circumstances and custom the law must yield.
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To cut into another's man's ear is like cutting into a felt hat.
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To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose.
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To God's council-chamber there is no key.
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To know the law and do the right are two things.
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To live long is to suffer long.
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To promise is easy, to keep is troublesome.
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To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.
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To withhold truth is to bury gold.
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To-day in gold, to-morrow in the mould.
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Too little and too much spoils everything.
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Too little, too late.
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Too many captains will sink the ship.
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Treachery and slander are long lived.
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Treachery lurks in honeyed words.
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Trust everybody, but thyself most.
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Trust not a skittish horse, nor a great lord, when they shake
their heads.
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Trust not still water nor a silent man.
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Truth and folly dwell in the wine-cask.
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Truth is bitter food.
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Truth is God's daughter.
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Truth must be seasoned to make it palatable.
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Truth's cloak is often lined with lies.
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Two are the masters of one.
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Two may lie so as to hang a third.
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Under white ashes lie often glowing embers.
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Unwilling service earns no thanks.
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Unworthy offspring brag the most of their worthy descent.
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Vice is learnt without a schoolmaster.
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Vice is most dangerous when it puts on the garb of virtue.
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Vipers breed vipers.
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Virtue in the middle, said the Devil, when seated between two
lawyers.
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Want and necessity break faith and oaths.
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Want of variety leads to satiety.
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Wanton kittens make sober cats.
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We are all well placed, said the cat, when she was seated on the
bacon.
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We must bear our cross with patience, said the man when he took
his wife on his back.
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We must eat a peck of dirt before we die.
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We must sow even after a bad harvest.
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We must suffer much, or die young.
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Weeds never die out.
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Weighty work must be done with few words.
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Welcome is the best cheer.
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What is got by begging is dearly bought.
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What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
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What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
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What is play to the strong is death to the weak.
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What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach.
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What you do yourself is well done.
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What you learn to your cost you remember long.
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