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Winter is summer's heir.
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Winter never rots in the sky.
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Wisdom does not consist in dress.
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With one hand he scratches you, and with the other he strikes
you.
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With the idle it is always holy day time.
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Without divine assistance we can achieve nothing.
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Without favour, art is like a windmill without wind.
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Women when injured are generally not easily appeased.
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Women's jars breed men's wars.
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Words butter not parsnips.
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Words may either conceal character or reveal it.
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Work makes the workman.
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Works have a stronger voice than words.
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Worthless is the advice of fools.
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Would you shear a donkey for wool!
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Would you take water to the frog?
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Wrongdoers and assenting parties are equally punishable.
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Years roll on.
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Yield to divine power.
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You anoint the dead man with salve.
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You are but sowing in sand.
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You are carrying owls to Athens.
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You are comparing a rose to an anemone.
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You are looking for wings in a wolf. [You hunt for
impossibilities.]
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You are more shifting than a potter's wheel.
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You are needlessly alarmed.
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You are talking to a stone.
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You are teaching a fish to swim.
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You are teaching iron to swim!
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You are what you eat.
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You ask the path when the high road is before your eyes.
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You attack a horned animal.
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You bring your own evil deeds to light.
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You can never consider that as your own which can be changed.
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You can't love Thetis and Galatea at the same time.
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You cannot catch a fox with a bait.
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You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
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You cannot have all you wish for.
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You compare the bee to the grasshopper!
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You compare the moorhen to the I swan.
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You compare the tortoise to the hare.
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You count the sand.
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You give hay to the dog and bones to the ass.
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You give the wolf the wether to keep.
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You have come too late for the feast.
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You have got your feet out of the mire.
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You have hit the nail on the head.
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You have hit the point exactly.
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You have left the sheep with the wolf for safe custody.
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You have spoilt the wine by adding water to it.
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