Wise Sayings
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Beware the door with too many keys.
Category: Vigilance Source: Portuguese
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Change yourself and fortune will change.
Category: Fortune Source: Portuguese
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Do good and care not to whom.
Category: Good and evil Source: Portuguese
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Every peddlar praises his own needles.
Category: Flattery and praise Source: Portuguese
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If you give orders and leave, the work won't get done.
Category: Business Source: Portuguese
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A bad knife cuts one's finger instead of the stick.
Source: Portuguese
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A barking dog was never a good hunter.
Source: Portuguese
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A barley corn is better than a diamond to a cock.
Source: Portuguese
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A beard lathered is half shaved.
Source: Portuguese
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A beard once washed is half shaven.
Source: Portuguese
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A beggar's wallet is never full.
Source: Portuguese
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A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter.
Source: Portuguese
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A contented ass enjoys a long life.
Source: Portuguese
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A dead man does not speak.
Source: Portuguese
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A dog in the manger, that neither eats nor lets others eat.
Source: Portuguese
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A dull ass near home trots without the stick.
Source: Portuguese
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A fast horse does not want the spur.
Source: Portuguese
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A fault confessed is half forgiven.
Source: Portuguese
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A fault confessed is half redressed.
Source: Portuguese
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A finger's length in a sword, and a palm in a lance, are a great advantage.
Source: Portuguese
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A friend is to be taken with his faults.
Source: Portuguese
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A friend's fault should be known but not abhorred.
Source: Portuguese
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A full man is no eater.
Source: Portuguese
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A girl, a vineyard, an orchard, and a bean-field, are hard to watch.
Source: Portuguese
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A good cock was never fat.
Source: Portuguese
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