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Let them talk of men, and beg of me.
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Let them whip me in the market-place, provided it be not known at
home.
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Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come
to it.
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Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons
will come to it.
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Let there be writing before you pay, and receipt before you
write.
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Let those pater nosters be for your own soul. (Ironical, against
swearing.)
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Let what is lost go for God's sake.
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Like a collier's sack, bad without and worse within.
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Like a parakeet that says what he knows but doesn't know what he
says.
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Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one hole make three.
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Like blood, like good, and like age, make the happiest marriage.
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Lip courtesy avails much and costs little.
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Listeners hear no good of themselves.
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Listeners never hear any good of themselves.
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Little and often fills the purse.
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Little beard, little modesty.
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Little bird, little nest.
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Little birds may pick a dead lion.
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Little birds that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing.
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Little by little one goes far.
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Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
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Long life to the conqueror.
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Lose no rights, and commit no extortions.
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Losers are always in the wrong.
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Love is like war, begin when you like and leave off when you can.
Source: (Spanish)
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Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call
you, and you will run a fruitless race.
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Love, grief, and money cannot be kept secret.
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Lovers think that others have no eyes.
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Luck comes to those who look after it.
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Lying and gossiping go hand in hand.
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Mad love--I for you, and you for another.
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Make a bridge of silver for the flying enemy.
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Make good flour, and do not blow the trumpet.
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Make way for a madman and a bull.
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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
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Man is fire, woman is tow; the devil comes with a bellows.
Source: (Spanish)
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Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
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Manual play, clown's play.
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Many kiss hands they would fain see chopped off.
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Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to
give and bring to her.
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May God not so prosper our friends that they forget us.
Source: (Spanish)
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May the man be damned and never grow fat,
Who wears two faces under one hat.
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Michael is quits; he lost a ducat and gained a rabbit.
Source: (Spanish)
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Miguel, Miguel, you have no bees, and yet sell honey.
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Mildness governs more than anger.
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Milk the cow that standeth still.
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Money gets money.
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Money soothes more than a gentleman's words.
Source: (Spanish)
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Money turns bad into good.
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Money will do more than my lord's letter.
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