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   -sorrowing and he that goes a-lending goes a-mending."
   "Saturday's flit is a short sit."
   "You cannot put an old head on young shoulders."
   "Live horse and you'll get grass."
   "All that glitters is not gold."
   "She is as stupid as the wall."
   "She is as quick as lightning."

   

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2. Local Proverbs

   

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   "Too much bed makes a dull head." "There's many a slip between the cup and the lip." "The hills are green far away." "A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool." "No rose without a thorn." "Every little frog is great in his own bog." "If better were within, better would come out." "Men apt to promise, are apt to forget." "Speak well of your friends. Of your enemies say nothing." "When a man's coat is threadbare it is easy to pick a hole in it."

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Una Connolly

   Gender

   Female