Ask thy purse what thou shouldst spend


Scottish Proverb

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Rest breeds rust.
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
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A wicked book cannot repent.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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Live to live and you will learn to live.
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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Why kill time when one can employ it.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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