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Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is
best.
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One funeral makes many.
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Peace makes plenty.
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Plenty know good ale, but don't know much after that.
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Poor Trust is dead; Bad Pay killed him.
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Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
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Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.
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Proverbs are the children of experience.
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Rain before seven; clear before eleven.
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Raw cucumber makes the churchyards prosperous.
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Raw leather will stretch.
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Revenge is a dish that should be eaten cold.
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Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
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Self-praise is no praise at all.
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Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy
and pleasant to you than any vice can be.
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Short acquaintance brings repentance.
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Soft fire makes sweet malt.
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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
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Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
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Spread the table and contention will cease.
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Spring has come when you can put your foot on three daisies.
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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of
slush.
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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt
me.
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Still he fisheth that catcheth one.
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Sweep in front of your own door.
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Take a dog for a companion and a stick in your hand.
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Take a hair of the dog that has bitten you.
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Take care of your pennies and your pounds will take care of your
heirs and barristers.
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Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.
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The afterthought is good for nought, except it be to catch blind
horses with.
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The bait hides the hook.
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
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The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for
things we need not, we often lose what we have.]
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The cat has nine lives: three for playing, three for straying,
three for staying.
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The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
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The Devil's children have the Devil's luck.
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The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.
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The eyes are the window of the soul.
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The face is no index to the heart.
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The golden age never was the present age.
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The greater the sinner, the greater the saint.
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The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
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The greatest barkers bite not sorest.
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The more acquaintance, the more danger.
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The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
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The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air.
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The noisy fowler catches no birds.
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The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.
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The old ox plows a straight furrow.
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The person who is tired will find time to sleep. A person with a
bad name is already half hanged.
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