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348 Proverb Categories in the Database.
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- a proverb of the twelfth century (2)
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- Arabian, quoted by Bulwer-Lytton "The Lady of Lyon (1)
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- Dutch, French, German, also found in Beaumont and (1)
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- epigram on Butler (1)
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- French, quoted by Lord Chesterfield (1)
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- from Fuller's "Gnomologica" (1)
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- Latin (1924)
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- Latin, also found in the Preface of Franklin's "Po (1)
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- Latin, Danish, Dutch (1)
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- Latin, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spa (3)
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- Latin, Dutch, also see William Patten Expedition i (1)
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- quoted as a common proverb by Thomas Scott in "The (1)
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