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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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A proverb is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience. They are often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim.
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