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Touch a galled horse and he'll wince.
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Travel east or travel west, a man's own house is still the best.
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Trees often transplanted seldom prosper.
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Truth is lost with too much debating.
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Truth is stranger than fiction.
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'Twixt the spoon and the lip, the morsel may slip.
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Two cocks in one house, a cat and a mouse, an old man and young
wife, are always in strife.
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Two dogs seldom agree over one bone.
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Union is strength.
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Virtue consists in action.
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Virtue is its own reward.
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Was, flax, and tin; much in and little in.
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We hang little thieves, and let great ones escape.
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Were every one to sweep before his own house, every street would
be clean.
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Were fools silent they would pass for wise.
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Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole.
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What costs nothing is worth nothing.
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What has horns will gore.
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What is bred in the bone won't out of the flesh.
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What is long spoken of happens at last.
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What is lost in the fire must be sought in the ashes.
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What is wrong to-day won't be right to-morrow.
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What lay hidden under the snow cometh to light at last.
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When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the
miller himself.
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When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
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When apes climb high, they show their naked rumps.
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When bale is hext, boot is next.
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When cats are mousing they don't mew.
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When every one sees that you are a pig, why don't you go into the
sty?
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When flies swarm in March, sheep come to their death.
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When fools go to market, pedlars make money.
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When gnats swarm in January, the peasant becomes a beggar.
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When had comes, have is too late.
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When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the
window.
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When it is God's will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to
death.
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When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer
sleep.
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When misery is highest help is nighest.
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When nought comes to aught, it does not know itself.
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When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow.
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When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles.
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When the ass is too happy he begins dancing on the ice.
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When the calf is drowned they cover the well.
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When the cat sleeps, the mice play.
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When the cat's away, it is jubilee with the mice.
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When the cook and the steward fall out we hear who stole the
butter.
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When the devil gets into the church he seats himself on the
altar.
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When the dog is down, every one is ready to bite him.
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When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
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When the husband earns well the wife spins well.
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When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter.
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