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 A small house has a wide throat. Attorneys' houses are built upon the heads of fools. Those who are doing nothing are doing ill. Brawling curs never want sore ears. Truth and sweet oil always come to the top. It is all in the day's work. Robin Hood could bear any wind but a thaw wind. The devil's children always have the devil's luck. Like a pig's tail—going all day, and nothing done at night. A wise head makes a still tongue. Every dog considers himself a lion at home. One half of the devil's meal runs to bran. There's no getting white meal out of a coal-sack. He has none of his chairs at home (i.e., he is wrong in his head). Don't stretch thy arm further than thy sleeve will reach. Every herring should hang by its own gills.

They are not all thieves that dogs bark at. There's more flies caught with honey than alegar. That man is safest who always serves a good conscience. A man might as well eat the devil as the broth he's boiled in.