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One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him.

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'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

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Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.

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One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over a hedge.

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Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools.

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What Manchester says today, the rest of England says tomorrow.

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When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

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A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be.

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Don't throw out your dirty water until you get in fresh.

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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy.

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Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.

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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

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The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter.

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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

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Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep.

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Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

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Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

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If you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned.

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.

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The tooth-ache is more ease, than to deale with ill people.

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