To a good cat a good rat.
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To a rogue a rogue and a half.
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To be willing is to be able.
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To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.
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To compare is not to prove.
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To do like the monkey, get the chesnuts out of the fire with the
cat's paw.
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To do, one must be doing.
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To eat and drink, and sleep together, is marriage, methinks.
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To every bird its nest seems fair.
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To every lord every honour.
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To every saint his candle.
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To get the chicks one must coax the hen.
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To give tardily is to refuse.
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To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.
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To grow rich one has only to turn his back on God.
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To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him.
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To know all is to forgive all.
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To leave a place is to die a little.
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To love and to be wise are two different things.
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To love is to choose.
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To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife
blind.
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To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake.
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To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine,
makes a man live to ninety-nine.
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To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a
man live years ten times ten.
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To rob a robber is not robbing.
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