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Need will gar an auld wife trot, and a baked man rin. Ne'er draw your durk when a daunt will do. Ne'er find faut wi' my shoon unless ye pay my cobler. Ne'er gae to the deil wi' a dish-clout about your head. Ne'er gae me my death in a toom dish.-.-Ne'er quat certanty for hope Ne'er let on but laugh in your ain sleeve. Ne'er marry a widow, unless her first man was hang'd.  Ne'er scad your lips in other fo'k's kail. Ne'er seek a wife till ye ken what to do wi'. Ne'er slaw your teeth unless ye can bite. Ne'er strive against the stream. Ne'er take a fore-hammer to break an egs, when ye can do it wi' a   pen-knife. --Nipping and searting's Scotch fo'k's wooing. Ne'er let the nose blush for the sins o' the mouth. Nineteen naesays o' a maiden are ha'f a grant.

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Ower haly was hang'd, and rough and sonsy wan awa'. Ower muckle o' naething is gude for naething. Ower mony grieves but hinders the wark. O' twa ills choose the least.--Out of debt out o' danger. Out of the peat pot into the gutter.

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Pay him hame in his ain coin.--Penny wise and pound foolish. Pennyless sauls may pine in purgatory. Pleying at law's like fighting through a whin buss, the harder she blows the sairer the scar. Poortish parts gude company.--Possession is eleven points o' the law Pride ne'er leaves its master till he get a fa'. Poets and painters hae liberty to lie. Put a coward to his metal and he'll fight the deil. Put your hand nae farther than your sleeve will reach. Put your hand i' the creel, and tak out an adder or an eel.

Q  Quey caufs are dear real.-- Quick returns mak rich.