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Cap in hand never did any harm.
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Chastise the good and he will mend, chastise the bad and he will
grow worse.
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Choose neither a lover nor linen by candlelight.
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Christmas comes but once a year.
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Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience is the chamber of justice.
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Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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Consolation, for the condemned, is to be one of many.
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Corsairs against corsairs, there is nothing to win but empty
barrels.
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Counsel is nothing against love.
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Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.
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Credit is dead, bad pay killed it.
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Credit lost is like a broken looking-glass.
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Crimes may be secret, yet not secure.
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Criminals are punished, that others may be amended.
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Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your
own.
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Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.
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Cunning men's cloaks sometimes fall.
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Curses are like processions: they return to whence they set out.
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Cut off the dog's tail, he remains a dog.
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Dearth foreseen never came.
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Delays are dangerous.
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Deliberate before you act.
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Different times different manners.
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Dirty water does not wash clean.
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Dirty water will quench fire.
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Do not give the dog bread every time he wags his tail.
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Do not judge of the ship from the land.
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Does your neighbour love you? Lend him a sequin.
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Dog does not eat dog.
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Dog won't eat dog.
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Dogs bark at hose they don't know.
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Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
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Don't believe in the saint unless he works miracles.
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Don't bite till you know whether it is bread or a stone.
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Don't cross the water unless you see the bottom.
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Don't cry fried fish before they are caught.
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Don't go a-fishing to a famous stream.
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Don't mention the cross to the devil.
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Don't play with the bear if you don't want to be bit.
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Don't put too tight a ring on your finger.
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Don't reckon your eggs before they are laid.
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Don't reject the good together with the bad.
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Don't sell the bearskin before you have caught the bear.
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Drink wine and let water go to the mill.
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Drop the jest when it is most amusing.
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Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
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Eating and drinking
Shouldn't keep us from thinking.
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Eating teaches drinking.
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Eggs have no business dancing with stones.
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