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One lie draw ten after it.
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One lie makes many.
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One living pope is better than ten dead.
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One may have good eyes and see nothing.
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One never wept but another laughed.
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One pair of ears would exhaust a hundred tongues.
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One scabby sheep spoils a flock.
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One should learn to sail in all winds.
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One starts the hare, another catches it.
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One who speaks fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
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One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for
the weeds.
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One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as
much as the person ready to die.
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One word brings on another.
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One would not be alone in Paradise.
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One's own spurs and another's horse make the miles short.
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Open thy mouth that I may know thee.
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Others' bread has seven crusts.
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Others' bread is too salt.
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Out of a great evil often comes a great good.
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Out of a white egg often comes a black chick.
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Out of debt, out of danger.
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Paper does not blush.
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Patience! said the wolf to the ass.
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Pay beforehand was never well served.
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Peel a fig for your friend, a peach for your enemy.
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Penny and penny laid up will be many.
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Plenty makes daintiness.
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Plenty of words when the cause is lost.
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Pluck the magpie, and don't make her scream.
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Pluck the rose and leave the thorns.
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Poison quells poison.
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Poor men do penance for rich men's sins.
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Poor men's money and cowards' weapons are often flourished.
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Poverty has no kin.
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Pride went out on horseback, and returned on foot.
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Priests, friars, nuns, and chickens never have enough.
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Princes have long arms.
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Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in
them as in a looking glass.
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Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it.
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Quick and well don't agree.
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Rather an ass that carries than a horse that throws.
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Rather hat in hand than hand in purse.
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Rather have a little one for your friend, than a great one for
your enemy.
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Reason lies between bridle and spur.
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Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved.
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Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.
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Running water carries no poison.
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Save a thief from the gallows and he'll be the first who shall
cut your throat.
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Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.
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