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A great man's entreaty is a command.
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A great position entails great responsibility.
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A hair casts its shadow on the ground.
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A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning.
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A handsome man is not quite poor.
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A handsome woman is either silly or vain.
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A hangman is a good trade, he doth his work by daylight.
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A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of.
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A house ready built and a vineyard ready planted.
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A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers, are
three hundred thieves.
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A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.
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A hungry belly listens to no one.
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A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers.
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A hungry man is an angry man.
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A husband with one eye rather than with a son.
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A kitchen-dog is never a good rabbit-hunter.
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A lame goat will not sleep by day.
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A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.
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A lazy ox is little the better for the goad.
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A lazy youth, a lousy age.
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A little gall embitters much honey.
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A little loss frightens, a great one tames.
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A man forewarned is as good as two.
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A man gains nothing by vain glory but contempt and hatred.
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A man may hap to bring home with him what makes him weep.
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A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them.
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A man that has had his fill is no eater.
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A man that is lean, not from hunger, is harder than brass.
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A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato
plant, the best part of which is underground.
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A measly hog infects the whole sty.
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A melon and a woman are hard to know.
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A mewing cat is never a good mouser.
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A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.
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A morsel eaten selfishly does not gain a friend.
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A mule and a woman do what is expected of them.
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A mute bird makes no omen.
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A north wind has no corn, and a poor man no friend.
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A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time
with his mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.
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A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
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A penny spared is a penny saved.
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A pig bought on credit grunts all the year.
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A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
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A pig's tail will never make a good arrow.
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A poor man is all schemes.
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A Portuguese apprentice who can't sew, yet would be cutting out.
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A postern door makes a thief.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
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