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Conduct First impressions are most lasting 1218
Helpful Advice Forbidden fruit is sweetest 1141
Animal Proverbs Fortune favours fools 871
Relationships Fortune favours the brave 843
Weather Proverbs Fortune favours those who use their judgement 713
Webrings Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door 761
God made the country; man made the town 807
God never sends mouths but he sends meat 731
Good wine needs no bush 818
Happy is the nation that has no history 832
He that is down need fear no fall 715
Health is not valued till sickness comes 789
Hope springs eternal in the human breast 758
If it were not for hope the heart would break 763
If the mountain will not go to Muhammed, then Muhammed must go to the mountain 946
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride 848
Ill news comes apace 663
It is a long road that has no turning 825
It is all in a day’s work 752
It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good 641
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive 683
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others 611
It is the first step that is troublesome 657
It takes all sorts to make a world 646
It will all be the same a hundred years hence 604
Jack of all trades, master of none 878
Knowledge is power 795
Least said, soonest mended 716
Life is not all beer and skittles 693
Like draws to like the whole world over 510
Little things please little minds 701
Long absent, soon forgotten 631
Lookers-on see most of the game 534
Love is blind 800
Man proposes; God disposes 741
Many hands make light work 1049
Misfortunes never come singly 730
Nature abhors a vacuum 638
Necessity is the mother of invention 739
Necessity knows no law 591
No man is a hero to his valet 697
No man is indispensable 572
No news is good news 842
Nothing succeeds like success 675
Old customs are best 559
Old shoes are easiest 868
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives 854

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