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Keep a thing seven years and you'll always find a use for it.

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While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.

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He who would speak the truth must first have one foot in the stirrup.

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The mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge's wing.

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The greater the truth, the greater the libel.

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If you would be happy for a week take a wife; if you would be happy for a month kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life plant a garden.

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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

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You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.

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Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.

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Needles and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries, his trouble begins.

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You buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones.

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You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire.

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A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

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Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away.

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There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.

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For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost.

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When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.

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The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.

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The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

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Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged.

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Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

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It is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies.

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Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session.

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A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men.

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Everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over.

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Turkey, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.

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My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

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An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet.

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Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak'all, keep all, gie nowt, and if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thysen.

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