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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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PAIN . Great pain and little gain make a man soon weary.
PAINS . No pains, no profit.
PAINS . Pains are the wages of ill-pleasures.
PAINTING . On painting and fighting look aloof off.
PARDON . Pardon all men, but never thyself.
PARENTS . Study to be worthy of your parents.
PARTRIDGE . 1212. PASSION. A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
PATCH . Patch and sit long, build and soon flit.
PATIENCE . Patience is a flower that grows not in every one's garden.
PATIENCE . Patience is a plaister for all sores.
PATIENT . As patient as Job.
PAY . Pay him in his own coin.
PAY . Pay as you go.
PAYMENT . 1221. PEARLS. Cast not pearls before swine.
PAYS LAST . He that pays last never pays twice.
 
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Illegibility : n. The state or quality of being illegible.
 
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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