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Better reap two day too soon than one too late.
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Better reap two days early than one day late.
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Better return half way than lose yourself.
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Better ride a good horse for a year, than an ass all your life.
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Better squinting than blind.
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Better stretch your hand than your neck.
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Better twice remembered than once forgotten.
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Better when birds sing than where irons ring.
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Beware of a white Spaniard and a black Englishman.
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Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts
the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.
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Beware of the man of two faces.
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Biding makes thriving.
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Big fish devour the little ones.
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Big fish eat little fish.
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Big fish spring out of the kettle.
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Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and
little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
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Bird never flew so high but it had to come to the ground for
food.
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Bite me not, my name is little grizzle; had I a little tail I
should be a little lion.
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Black hens lays white eggs.
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Black will take no other hue.
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Blossoms are not fruits.
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Blow first, and sip afterwards.
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Borrowing brings care.
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By falling we earn to go safely.
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By falling we learn to go safely.
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By labour fire is got out of a stone.
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By slow degrees the bird builds his nest.
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By the living we bury the dead.
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Caress your dog, and he'll spoil your clothes.
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Caution is the parent of delicate beer-glasses.
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Cent-wisdom and dollar-folly.
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Clothes make the man.
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Coffee has two virtues, it is wet and warm.
Source: (Dutch)
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Coin a phrase.
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Cold broth hot again, that loved I never;
Old love renew'd again, that loved I ever.
Source: (Dutch)
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Common fame seldom lies.
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Common Goods, no goods.
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Correction bringeth fruit.
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Counsel before action.
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Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick
horse.
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Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy.
Source: (Dutch)
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Coupled sheep drown one another.
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Cover up the pot, there's an eel in it.
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Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with
earth.
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Creaking carts last the longest.
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Cream doesn't rise to the top, it works its way up.
Source: (Dutch)
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Darkness and night are mothers of thought.
Source: (Dutch)
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Daughters are brittle ware.
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Daughters may be seen but not heard.
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Death is in the pot.
Source: (Dutch)
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