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Arms and money require good hands.
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As are the times, so are the manners.
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As for friars, live with them, eat with them, and walk with them;
then sell them as they do themselves.
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As is the king, so are his people.
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As is the master, so is his dog.
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As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good
mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a
good daughter-in-law.
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As mony heads, as mony wits.
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As the abbot sings the sacristan responds.
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As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love
turns to the deadliest hatred.
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As the call, so the echo.
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As the day lengthens, so the cold strengthens.
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Ask not after a good man's pedigree.
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Ask too much to get enough.
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At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet than
his hands.
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At an auction keep your mouth shut.
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At the end the Gloria is chanted.
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At the wedding-feast the least eater is the bride.
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Attack is the best form of defence.
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Attack is the best form of defense.
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Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you
with his beak.
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Away with thee, sickness, to where they make a good pillow for
thee.
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Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion; married, an ass.
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Bad news is always true.
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Bargains are dear.
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Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in
force.
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Be merry, Shrovetide, for to-morrow thou wilt be ashes.
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Be my enemy and go to my mill.
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Be not a baker if your head is butter.
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Be not an esquire where you were a page.
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Before the time, great courage; when at the point, great fear.
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Before you marry, beware, for it is a knot difficult to untie.
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Before you marry, have a house to live in, fields to till, and
vines to cut.
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Beggars must not be choosers.
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Better be the head of a rat than the tail of a lion.
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Better go about than be drowned.
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Better go about than fall into the ditch.
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Better is rule than rent.
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Better is the smoke of my own house than the fire of another's.
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Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace.
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Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.
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Better one "Take this," than two "I will give you."
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Better rule in hell, than serve in heaven.
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Better sit idle than work for naught.
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Better suffer a known evil than change for uncertain good.
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Better there should be too much than too little.
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Better they should say, "There he ran away," than "There he
died."
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Better to bend than break.
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Between saying and doing there is a long road.
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Between two friends a notary and two witnesses.
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Between two sharpers, the sharpest.
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