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It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
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It is hard to blow with a full mouth.
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It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds.
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It is hard to find a pin in the dark.
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It is hard to please every one.
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It is hard to steal where the host is a thief.
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It is hard to swim against the stream.
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It is ill catching hares with drums.
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It is ill sailing against wind and tide.
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It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope.
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It is ill takin' the breeks off a highlandman.
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It is not the cowl that makes the friar.
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It is not the hen which cackles most that lays most eggs.
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It is pleasant to cut thongs on another man's leather.
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It is prophet-drink (i.e. water).
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It is safest sailing within reach of the shore.
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It is too late to cry "Hold hard!" when the arrow has left the
bow.
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It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool's head.
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It sticks to his fingers, like the charity-money to the matron.
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It's a long lane that has no turning.
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It's a poor heart that never rejoices.
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It's bad combing where there is no hair.
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It's better that the bakers are on horseback than the doctors.
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It's good dancing on another man's floor.
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It's good feasting in another's hall.
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It's good steering with wind and tide.
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It's good to be off wi' the old love
Before ye be on wi' the new.
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It's hard to catch hawks with empty hands.
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It's ill jesting with edged tools.
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It's ill speaking between a full man and a fasting.
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It's ill waiting for dead men's shoes.
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It's never too late.
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It's no crime to steal from a thief.
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It's pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry.
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It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
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It's the little things in life that count.
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Labour warms, sloth harms.
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Learn thou of learned men, th' unlearned of thee; for thus must
knowledge propagated be.
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Learn to creep before you run.
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Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost.
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Let God's waters run over God's acres.
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Let it roll; it will right itself.
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Let lie what is too heavy to lift.
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Let me get over the lake, and I have no fear of the brook.
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Light gains make a heavy purse.
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Like pot, like cover.
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Like to like, Jack to Gill, a penny a pair.
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Like will to like, be they poor or rich.
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Little is done where many command.
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Little leaks sink the ship.
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