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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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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.
 
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Labyrinthici : n. pl. An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.
 
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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