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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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ABSENCE . Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones.
ABSENT . The absent are always at fault.
ABSENT . Long absent, soon forgotten.
ACHING TEETH . Who hath aching teeth, hath ill tenants.
ADVERSITY . Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
ADVERSITY . Adversity tries friends.
ADVERSITY . Adversity flattereth no man.
ADVICE . Give neither advice nor salt until you are asked for it.
ADVICE . What every one asks, what every one gives, but what very few take--advice.
ADVICE . In vain he craves advice who will not follow it.
ADVICE . Advice comes too late when a thing is done.
AFRAID . More afraid than hurt.
AFRAID OF WOUNDS . He that's afraid of wounds must not come nigh a battle.
AGE . Age before honesty.
AGE (OLD) . Old age is honourable.
 
Old English 'word lottery' pick

Qualmish : a. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.

 
Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston, published originally in 1880 in London by Whittaker & Co
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