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A bad beginning may make a good ending.
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A bad cause requires many words.
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A bad penny always comes back.
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A bad penny always turns up.
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A baptised Jew is a circumcised Christian.
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A bargain is a bargain.
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A bashful dog never fattens.
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A better seldom comes after.
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A blind horse goes straightforward.
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A blind leader of the blind.
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A blind man swallows many a fly.
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A bold does not always fall when it thunders.
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A bold onset is half the battle.
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A bolt does not always fall when it thunders.
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A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins.
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A cat in gloves catches no mice.
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A cat is a lion to mouse.
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A clean mouth and honest hand, will take a man through any land.
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A close mouth and open eyes never did any one harm.
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A close mouth catcheth no flies.
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
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A dainty stomach beggars the purse.
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A danger foreseen is half avoided.
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A day after the fair.
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A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor alone.
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A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom.
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A drink is shorter than a tale.
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A dripping June sets all in tune.
Source: (German)
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.
Source: (German)
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A father maintains ten children better than ten children one
father.
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A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse
three dogs, and a man three horses.
Source: (German)
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A fence makes love more keen.
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A fish should swim thrice: in water, in sauce, and in wine.
Source: (German)
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A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
Source: (German)
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A glutton young, a beggar old.
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A golden hammer breaks an iron gate.
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A good conscience is a soft pillow.
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A good meal is worth hanging for.
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A good name is a rich inheritance.
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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A good trade will carry farther than a thousand florins.
Source: (German)
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A gosling flew over the Rhine, and came home a goose.
Source: (German)
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A handful of might is better than a sack full of right.
Source: (German)
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A huckster who cannot pass off mouse-turd for pepper, has not
learned his trade.
Source: (German)
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A hug a day keeps the demons at bay.
Source: (German)
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A hundred years of regret pay not a farthing of debt.
Source: (German)
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A hundred years of wrong do not make an hour of right.
Source: (German)
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A lawyer and a cart-wheel must be greased.
Source: (German)
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A lawyer and a wagon-wheel must be well greased.
Source: (German)
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A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.
Source: (German)
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