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VALOUR. Valour can do little without discretion. VALOUR. Valour that parleys is near yielding. VENTURE. Nothing venture nothing win. VENTURE. Venture a small fish to catch a great one. VENTURE. Venture not all in one ship. VERY LAST. Fools think themselves wise to the very last. VICAR OF BRAY. The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray still. VICE. Vice is nourished by being concealed. VINE. Make the vine poor, and it will make you rich. VINEGAR. The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar. VIRTUES. Search others for their virtues, thyself for their faults. VOWS. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. 1709. WAGER. A wager is a fool's argument.
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
