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A proud pauper and a rich miser are contemptible beings.
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A ragged coat finds little credit.
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A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is not taken into
counsel.
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A rainy morn oft brings a pleasant day.
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A rotting fish begins to stink at the head.
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A runaway horse punishes himself.
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A saddle fits more backs than one.
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A sailor must have his eye trained to the rocks and sands as well
as the north star.
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A scalded dog thinks cold water hot.
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A scorpion never stung me but I cured myself with its grease.
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A secret imparted is no longer a secret.
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A sheep's bite is never more than skip deep.
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A short tail won't keep off flies.
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A shut mouth catches no flies.
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A sin concealed is half forgiven.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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A slothful man never has time.
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A solitary man is either a brute or an angel.
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A starved town is soon forced to surrender.
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A stick is soon found to beat a dog.
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A stout heart overcomes ill fortune.
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A thing done has a head. (The exultation of an ancient sculptor
on his satisfactorily completing the head of his statue.)
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A thing is never much talked of but there is some truth in it.
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A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.
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A threatened buffet is never well given.
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A tree often transplanted is never loaded with fruit.
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A vagabond monk never spoke well of his convent.
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A voluntary burthen is no burthen.
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A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
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A waiting appetite kindles many a spite.
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A wise man and a fool together, know more than a wise man alone.
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A wise man does at first what a fool must do at last.
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A woman who loves to be at the window is like a bunch of grapes
on the wayside.
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A woman's answer is never to seek.
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A woman's in pain, a woman's in woe, a woman is ill, when she
likes to be so.
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A woman's place is in the home.
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A wound foreseen paint the less.
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Absence is a foe to love; out of sight out of mind.
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After one pope another is made.
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
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Agree between yourselves (as to the time), quoth Arlotto, and I
will make it rain.
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All are brave when the enemy flies.
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All are not saints who go to church.
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All is not butter that comes from the cow.
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All saints do not work miracles.
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All ships leak: some amidships, some in the bows, some in the
hold.
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All tastes are tastes.
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All that's fair must fade.
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All the brains are not in one head.
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All the fingers are not alike.
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