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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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IDLE . A young man idle, an old man needy.
IDLE . Better be idle than ill employed.
IDLE FOLK . Idle folk have the least leisure.
IDLE FOLK . Idle folk take the most pains.
IDLENESS . Idleness is the key of beggary.
IDLENESS . Of idleness comes no goodness.
IDLENESS . Idleness is the root of all evil.
IDLENESS . Idleness must thank itself if it goes barefoot.
IGNORANT . The ignorant think all things wrong which they cannot understand.
ILL BIRD . It is an ill bird that defiles its own nest.
ILL DOG . 'Tis an ill dog that deserves not a bone.
ILL FORTUNE . He who hath no ill fortune, is dazed with good.
ILL GOT . Ill got, ill spent.
ILL GOTTEN . Ill gotten gains seldom prosper.
ILL LUCK . When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her.
 
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Domestically : adv. In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

 
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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