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Poverty is no sin.
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Poverty is not a crime.
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Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.
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Pray to God, but hammer away.
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Prison and Lent were made for the poor.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
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Prosperity forgets father and mother.
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Put a beggar into your barn and he will make himself your heir.
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Rather mulberry than almond. (The almond-tree is in blossom
earlier than the mulberry.)
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Rats do not play tricks with kittens.
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Renounce the devil, and thou shalt wear a shabby coat.
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Right or wrong, 'tis our house up to the roof.
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Right or wrong, God aid our purpose.
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Right overstrained turns to wrong.
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Rise early and watch, labour and catch.
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Said the frying pay to the kettle, Stand off, black bottom.
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Salt split is never all gathered.
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Say before they say.
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Seat yourself in your place and you will not be made to quit it.
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See how he has risen from a mayor to a hangman.
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See that you tie so that you can untie.
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See, hear, and hold your tongue.
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Sell publicly and buy privately.
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Sense comes with age.
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Serve a lord and you'll know what is grief.
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Set a peasant on horseback, and he forgets both God and man.
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Set a sprat to catch a mackerel.
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Seven brothers in a council make wrong right.
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Seven is company, and nine confusion. (Alluding to a dinner
party.)
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She is fond of greens who kisses the gardener.
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She is good and honoured who is dead and buried.
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She is good who is close to the fire and does not burn.
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She is nether fish nor fowl.
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She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome.
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Shoemakers go to mass and pray that sheep may die.
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Shoot at a pigeon and kill a crow.
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Short hose must have long points.
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Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour a good woman.
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Silence and look out, we shall catch both hen and chicks.
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Silent water is dangerous water.
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Silly sheep, where one goes, all go.
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Since I wronged you, I have never liked you.
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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
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Since we have loaves let us not look for cakes.
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Since you have scolding me, I have counted a hundred and twenty
holes in that nutmeg grater.
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Skilled hands eat trouts.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Sleep over it, and you will come to a resolution.
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Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive
a man out of his life.
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So money gets money.
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