More American Proverbs
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed....
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The receiver is as bad as the thief....
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Leave well enough alone....
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Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away....
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Close, but no cigar....
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Other Proverbs
When goods increase the body decreases....
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Example is the greatest of all seducers....
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Always in love, never married....
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At borrowing cousin german, at repaying son of a whore....
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Great talkers, little doers....
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man
- American Proverb