More American Proverbs
You cannot drive a windmill with a pair of bellows....
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards....
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If you desire many things, many things will be seem but a few....
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Fish or cut bait....
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Good fences make good neighbors....
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Other Proverbs
To want to forget something is to remember it....
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Who spits against heaven, it falls on his head....
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There's neither rhyme nor reason....
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Great boaster, little doer....
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Let him who is cold blow the fire....
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Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
- American Proverb