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Many asses have only two legs.
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Many can drive an ox; few can plough.
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Many can drive oxen, few can plough.
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Many fall by the sword, but more from gluttony.
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Many promises impair confidence.
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Many will hate you if you love yourself.
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Many words, little credit.
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March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
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Marriage is a lottery.
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Married life without children is as the day deprived of the sun's
rays.
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Marry a person in your own rank in life.
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Men are bound by words, bulls' horns by ropes.
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Men in office must work hard.
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Men learn oratory by practice. [Practice in speaking makes us
eloquent.]
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Men see more of the business of others than of their own.
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Men who have no religion, no honour.
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Men worship the rising, not the setting sun.
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Mere intentions are not to be esteemed as actions.
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Merit consists in action.
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Merit is often belied by the countenance.
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Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.
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Mice care not to play with kittens.
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Midway between the earth and the starry Olympus. [In a quandary.
In a fix.]
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Mirth must be indulged in to prepare the mind for more serious
matters.
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Misfortunes make friends.
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Misfortunes make happiness more sweet when it comes.
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Misfortunes make strange bedfellows.
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Mistakes are to be pardoned.
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Moderate measures succeed best.
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Moderation in all things.
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Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe.
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for its living,
And a child that's born of the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good and gay.
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Money, like a queen, gives rank and beauty.
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More blind than the cast-off skin of a serpent.
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More cost, more worship.
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More die by food than famine.
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More like than egg to egg.
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More naked than the cast-off skin of a serpent.
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Morn with her rosy locks dispels the shades of night, and the sun
puts to flight the stars, lighting up the world.
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Morning dreams come true.
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Most bitter are the quarrels of brothers.
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Most haste, worst speed.
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Mountains never unite. [Haughty people rarely fraternize.]
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Mules help to scratch each other. [The bad commend each other.]
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Music induces more madness in many than wine.
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Music is the best cure for a sorrowing mind.
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Music is the handmaid of divinity.
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Music provokes love.
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My inclination first leads me in one direction, then in the
opposite.
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Nature is our mother.
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Nature without an effort surpasses art.
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