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Rackless youth maks ruefu' eild.--Raw leather raxes. Raise nae mae deils than your able to lay. Rather spoil your joke than tine your friend. Raw dawds mak fat lads.--Rich fou'k hae routh o' friends. Rich fo‘k's wit rives puir fo'k's jaws.--Rob Peter to pay Paul. Ride fair and jaup nane.--Right wrangs nae man. Rob Gib's contract, stark love and kindness. Rome was nae bigget in ae day.- Royet lads may mak sober men. Rooks and writers are ay to be found about ruined houses. Roose the ford as ye find it.--Rue and time grow baith in ae garden.

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Sair cravers are ay ill payers.-Satan reproving sin. Saut, quoth the suter, then he had eaten a cow a' but the tail. Seethe stanes in butter the broo will be gude. Second thoughts are best.--Ser' yoursel till your bairns come in age. Set a beggar on horseback he'll ride to the deil. Set a stout heart to a stay brae. --Shame's past the shade o' your hair Sharp stomachs mak short graces.--Stown dints are sweetest. Shallow waters mak maist din.--Sinle seen soon forgotten. She's as leal a maiden as her man left her. She hauds up her head like a hen drinking water. She brack her elbow at the kirk door.--Standing dubs gather dirt. She'll wear like a horse shoe, ay the langer the clearer. Short fok are soon angry, their heart's soon at their mou. Slaw at meat slaw at wark. --Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for. Some hae a hantle o' fauts ye'er only a neer-do-weel. Souters aud tailors count hours.--Speak o' the deil and he'll appear. Speak gude o' pipers, your father was a fiddler. Speak when your spoken till, and drink when you're drucken till. Strike the iron as larg as it's het.

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Tak your will o't as the cat did o' the haggis.