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Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Each to their own.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Blood is thicker than water.
Enough is enough.
To every thing there is a season.
Silence construes consent.
Beggars can't be choosers.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It's best to be on the safe side.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
You can't always get what you want.
What goes up must come down.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
When one door shuts, another opens.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Another day, another dollar.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
Wonders will never cease.
A cat has nine lives.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Easy come, easy go.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
The wages of sin is death.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Manners maketh the man.
Waste not, want not.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Bad news travels fast.
Fish and guests smell after three days.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
You can't take it with you.
Better late than never.
Speak as you find.
Truth will out.
Better safe than sorry.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
Love will find a way.
A cat may look at a king.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
You can't win them all.
Quid pro quo.
A person is known by the company they keep.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Beauty is only skin deep.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
There are two sides to every question.
You can't make bricks without straw.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
The Devil is in the details.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Money isn't everything.
There is honour among thieves.
There's no smoke without fire.
First impressions are the most lasting.
If you build it, they will come.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
The best things in life are free.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
First things first.
Seize the day.
No news is good news.
Nothing new under the sun.
A fish always rots from the head.
Every stick has two ends.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The end justifies the means.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Horses for courses.
Good talk saves the food.
Look before you leap.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Persuasion is better than force.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
Everyone has their price.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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