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It is not tint that a friend gets It is not what is she, but what has she It is past jouking wiven the head's aff 425 It is well wared that wasters want Its well that our fauts are not written on our face It is the best spoke in your wheel It keeps his nose at the grind-stane It will be a feather out of your wing 450 It was never for naething that the gled whistle K     Keep something for a sair foot. Keep your ain fish-guts to your ain aea-maws Keep your tongue within your teeth Keep the feast to the feast day Keep the staff in your ain hand 435 Keep your breath to cool your crowdie Keep your mouth close and your een open Kend fowk's nae company Kings and hears aft worry their keepers Kiss a sclate-stane, and that winna slaver you 440 Kyth in your ain colours, that fouk may ken you L     Laith to bed, and laith to rise Lang fasting hains nae meat Long looked for comes at last 445 Lang fasting gathers wind Lang straes are nae motes Lang or ye saddle a foal Law's costly, tak a pint and gree Law-makers should na be law-breakers 450 Laugh at leisure, ye may greet e'er night Lay the head of the sow to the tail of the grice Leave welcome behind ye     Leave aff as lang's the play's good Learn you to an use and ye'll ca't custom 455 Letna the plough stand to slay a mouse Let beli'd weathers break the sna Let him take a spring on his ain fiddle Let him cool in the skin he het in