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Proverbs
Do
not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly
from your friend's forehead.
Don't imitate the fly before you have wings.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth..
Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound,
in these three good health abound.
Even a small thorn causes festering.
Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Every dog hath its day.
Every garden may have some weeds.
Everyone
is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Everyone loves justice in the affairs
of another.
Everyone pushes a falling fence.
Evil enters like a needle and spreads
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Evil
is sooner believed than good.
Experience is a comb which nature gives
to men when they are bald.
Fame is a magnifying glass.
Feather by feather the goose can be plucked.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Flattery makes friends and truth makes
enemies.
Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do
not expect to regain her tomorrow.
Fortune is blind, but not invisible.
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not
be screwed too tight.
Friends are lost by calling often and calling
seldom.
Friendship is a furrow in the sand.
Give neither counsel nor salt till you
are asked for it.
Give the devil his due.
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his
teeth.
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made
mothers.
God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack
them.
God
heals, and the physician takes the fee.
God help the rich man, let the poor man
beg!.
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a
cat.
Good advice is often annoying, bad advice
never.
Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
Good luck beats early rising.
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Haste makes waste.
Have a horse of your own and then you may
borrow another's.
He
is not wise that is not wise for himself.
He lied like an eyewitness.
He makes his home where the living is best.
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