A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages, and a Complete Alphabetical IndexG. Bell and sons, 1899 - 583 pages |
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... turn the stomach of the most nice . For it is the naming such things by their plain and proper appellatives that is odious and offensive ; when they come lapped up ( as we say ) in clean linen , ( that is , expressed in oblique ...
... turn the stomach of the most nice . For it is the naming such things by their plain and proper appellatives that is odious and offensive ; when they come lapped up ( as we say ) in clean linen , ( that is , expressed in oblique ...
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... turns . Good and quickly seldom meet . Goods are theirs who enjoy them . Gossips and frogs drink and talk . Ital . The greatest strokes make not the best music . There could be no great ones if there were no little . He that gropes in ...
... turns . Good and quickly seldom meet . Goods are theirs who enjoy them . Gossips and frogs drink and talk . Ital . The greatest strokes make not the best music . There could be no great ones if there were no little . He that gropes in ...
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... turns the edge of wit . Idleness is the key of beggary . Jest not with the eye , nor religion . Span . The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears . Better be ill spoken of by one before all , than by all before one . An ill stake ...
... turns the edge of wit . Idleness is the key of beggary . Jest not with the eye , nor religion . Span . The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears . Better be ill spoken of by one before all , than by all before one . An ill stake ...
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... , makes him a fool . Ital . is wanting to one friend , loseth a great many . ewd turn deserv mber invites another . is good till another's told . The best remedy against an ill man , is much PROVERBIAL SENTENCES . 15.
... , makes him a fool . Ital . is wanting to one friend , loseth a great many . ewd turn deserv mber invites another . is good till another's told . The best remedy against an ill man , is much PROVERBIAL SENTENCES . 15.
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... side is the best garden . The married man must turn his staff into a stake . Before you marry , be sure of a house wherein to tarry . Span . Ital . 14 PROVERBIAL SENTENCES . Honest men marry soon , wise PROVERBIAL SENTENCES . 13.
... side is the best garden . The married man must turn his staff into a stake . Before you marry , be sure of a house wherein to tarry . Span . Ital . 14 PROVERBIAL SENTENCES . Honest men marry soon , wise PROVERBIAL SENTENCES . 13.
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