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Before a man learns to hang he is half dead.
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Better a friend's bite than an enemy's caress.
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Better a little furniture than an empty house.
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Better a little in peace and with right, than much with anxiety
and strife.
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Better a poor horse than an empty stall.
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Better a salt herring on your own table, than a fresh pike on
another man's.
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Better an open enemy than a false friend.
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Better ask twice than lose your way once.
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Better be convinced by words than by blows.
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Better blow hard than burn yourself.
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Better coarse cloth than naked thighs.
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Better come late to church than never.
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Better cross an angry man than a fasting man.
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Better half a loaf than none at all.
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Better in an old carriage than in a new ship.
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Better is the branch that bends, than the branch that breaks.
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Better is the evil known than the good which is yet to know.
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Better lose the anchor than the whole ship.
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Better make a short circuit than to wet your hose.
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Better no law, than law not enforced.
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Better one cow in peace than seven in trouble.
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Better something on the arm than all in the stomach.
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Better spare at the brim that at the bottom.
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Better suffer for truth, than prosper by falsehood.
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Better the child cry than the old man.
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Better the child cry, than the mother sigh.
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Better the world should know you as a sinner than God know you as
a hypocrite.
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Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
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Better to be a free bird than a captive king.
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Better to deny at once, than to promise long.
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Better to have something yourself, than to beg of your sister.
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
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Better twice measured than once wrong.
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Better walk on wooden legs, than be carried on a wooden bier.
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Better walk unshackled in a green meadow, than be bound to a
thorn-brush.
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Better weak beer than an empty cask.
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Better whole than patched in gold.
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Between evil tongues and evil ears, there is nothing to choose.
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Between saying and doing there is a great distance.
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Beware of the dog himself, his shadow does not bite.
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Beware, froth is not beer.
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Big words seldom go with good deeds.
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Bite not the dog that bites.
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Blacksmith's children are not afraid of sparks.
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Blame is the lazy man's wages.
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Blame it on the rain.
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Bread is better than the song of birds.
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Break one link and the whole chain falls apart.
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Butter spoils no meat, and moderation injures no cause.
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Buy him at his own price and sell him at yours and you'll make no
bargain.
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