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A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone. [Let a
slumbering evil rest where it is.]
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A faithless wife is shipwreck to a house.
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A few things gained by fraud destroy a fortune otherwise honestly
won.
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A fire is nourished by its own ashes. [Difficulties embolden
rather than impede the brave.]
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A fisherman once stung will be wiser.
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A fool repays a salve by a stab, and a stab by a salve. [He
mistakes friends for foes and foes for friends.]
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A fool talks of folly.
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A fox is known by this tail.
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A fox is not caught twice in the same trap.
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A friend that will go to the scaffold with you.
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A friend that you buy with presents, will be bought from you.
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A gadding girl is rarely coy.
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A good beginning ensures a good ending.
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A good dinner helps deliberation.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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A good leader makes a good follower.
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A good name is like sweet smelling ointment.
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A good orator, but a very bad man.
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A good thing is esteemed more in its absence than in its
enjoyment.
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A great anvil fears not noise.
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A great city. a great desert.
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A great dowry, a bed full of brambles.
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A guest should not remain for ever a guest.
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A hard knot requires a hard wedge.
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A hard life but a healthy one.
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A honey-comb in the mouth of a lion!
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A horse deprived of his food won't work.
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A hungry ass needs not a blow.
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A hungry man will listen to nothing.
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A jackdaw among the muses.
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A jealous woman will set a whole house on fire.
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A kindness bestowed on the good is never thrown away.
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A king or a slave.
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A king's castle is his home.
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A king's chaff is worth more than other men's corn.
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A king, a master, a parent, a judge, may fail to frighten us; but
sickness coming brings with it successful reproof.
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A learned man has always wealth in himself.
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A lengthy sermon is intolerable.
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A leopard cannot change his spots.
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A leopard does not change his spots.
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A letter once written cannot be recalled.
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A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. [Fable of boy
and wolf.]
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A light supper is beneficial.
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A lion may be beholden to a mouse.
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A lover should be regarded as a person demented.
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A man as he manages himself may die old at thirty, or young at
eighty.
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A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle.
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A man if he lives alone is either a god or a demon.
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A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
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A man is a king in his own house.
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