Observations
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Better to weep with the wise than laugh with the fool. |
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Better to regret your silence once than your words many times. |
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Better to ask many times than to get lost once. |
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Better to be happy than wise. |
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Better to go to heaven in rags than hell in finery. |
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Better to travel hopefully than to arrive. |
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Better to die a beggar than to live a beggar. |
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Better to bend than to break. |
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Better to suffer a great evil than to do a small one. |
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Better to live in honour than to die in shame. |
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Better to be embarrassed than to be ashamed. |
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Better to be dislike for what you are than liked for what you are not. |
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Better to sleep without supper than to rise in debt. |
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Better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep. |
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Better to cut the shoe than to pinch the toe. |
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Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. |
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Better to arrive late than not at all. |
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Better to sleep in a wooden bed than to lie in a golden coffin. |
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Better to be alone than in bad company. |
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Better to turn back than to go wrong. |
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Better to love less than to love longer. |
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Better to keep then Devil at the door than to turn him out of the house. |
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Better to give than to receive. |
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Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. |
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Better to take caution at first than to have tears later. |
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Better to be good than pious. |
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Better to have an ugly truth than a beautiful lie. |
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Better to have one hundred enemies outside the house than one inside. |
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