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Strike the iron as long as it is hot. Stuffing hands out storms. 610 Sudden friendship sure repentance. Suped out wort was never good ale. Sweer by your burnt shins. Sweer to bed and sweer up in the morning. T             Take it as and pay the merchant. 615 Take the bit and the buffet wi't.             Take a pint and 'gree, the law's costly. Take your venture, as mony a good ship has done. Take you thanks to feed your cat. 620 Take part of the pelf when the pack's dealing Take a nan by his word and a cow by the horn Take a hair of the dog that bit you. Take me not up before I fa'. Tell nae tales out of the school. 625 That's a tale of twa drinks. That's but ae doctor's opinion. That's for the father but no for the son. That's for that, as butter's for fish. That's my tale, where's your's.         630 That's the piece a step bairn never gat. The auld ever may die waiting for new grace. The back and the belly hauds every ane busy The better day the better deed. The book of Maybees is very braid. 635 The banes of a great estate is worth the piking The cause is good, and the word's fa' on. The cure may be warse than the disease. The death of the first wife made sick a hole his heart that as the lave slipt easily through 640 The first sup of a fat haggis is the baldest. The farther in the deeper. The feethens bear away the flesh. The grey mare may be the best horse. The greatest clerks are not the wisest men. 645 The happy man canna be hurried