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It is the best spake in your wheel. It keeps his nose at the grindstone. It will be a feather out of your wing. K      Keep something for a sair foot. Keep your tongue within your teeth. Keep the feast to the feast day. Keep the staff in your ain hand. Keep your breath to cool your crowdie. Kend fouk's nae company. Kings and bears aft worry their keepers. L      Laith to bed and laith to rise. Lang fasting hains nae meat. Lang look’d for comes at last. Lang straes are nae mots. Lang ere ye saddle a foal. Law’s costly take a pint and 'gree. Law makers shoudna be law breakers. Laugh at leisure ye may greet ere night. Leave welcome behind you. Leave aff as lang as the play’s good. Learn you to an ill use and ye’ll ca’t custom Let na the plough stand to slay a mouse. Let him take a spring on his ain fiddle. Let him cool in the skin he het in. Let his ain wand ding him. Let never sorrow come sae near your heart. Let the horns gang with the hide. Let the morn come and the meat wi’t. Let the kirk stand in the kirkyard. Let them laugh that win. Let them care that come behind. Lie for him and he’ll swear for you.