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1. A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

2. A cold April, the barn will fill.

3. A countryman between two lawyers, is like a fish between two cats.

4.* Act uprightly, and despise calumny; dirt may stick to a mud wall, but not to polish'd marble.

5. A cypher and humility make the other figures and virtues of tenfold value.

6. A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

7.* A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

8. A fat kitchen, a lean will.

9. A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine.

10. A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

11.* After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

12. After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.