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Better auld debts than auld sairs. Better to be alane than In I’ll company. Better to be idle than ill employed. Better buy than barrow. Better day the better deed. Better find iron than tine siller. Bare-footed men need not tread upon throrns. Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. Better hand loose than in an ill tethering. Better kiss a knave than cast out wi' him. Better keep well than make well. Better lang something than soon naething. Better leave to my faes than beg frae my      friends. Better rue sit than rue flit. Better sit idle than work for nought. Better skaith say'd than mends made. Better sma' fish than nane. Better to haud than to draw. Better unborn than untaught. Better wait on the cook than the doctor. Better wear shoon than sheets. Birds of a feather flock together. Birth's good but breeding's better. Blind men shouldna be judge o' colours. Blood's thicker than water. Burnt bairns dread fire. C     CADGERS have aye mind of lade saddles. Cast a bane in the deil's teeth. Charity begins at hame. Come unca'd sits unserv’d. Comes to my hand like the bowl of a pint Stout. Come with the Wind and gae with the water. Corn bin well he'll work the better.