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Familiarity breeds contempt.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Grief divided is made lighter.
Nothing new under the sun.
A picture paints a thousand words.
Silence is golden.
Let the buyer beware.
Faith will move mountains.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
Practice makes perfect.
There's one born every minute.
Pride comes before a fall.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
Beggars can't be choosers.
Beat swords into ploughshares.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Every picture tells a story.
Charity begins at home.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Money makes the world go round.
There's no time like the present.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Money isn't everything.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
One swallow does not a summer make.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Moderation in all things.
A watched pot never boils.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Good talk saves the food.
Time is money.
It's better to give than to receive.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Never go to bed on an argument.
Live and learn.
Never tell tales out of school.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
God helps those who help themselves.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
You can't win them all.
First come, first served.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Get out while the getting is good.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Cheats never prosper.
All you need is love.
The best things in life are free.
The best-laid plans go astray.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Love will find a way.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
Everyone has their price.
A bad penny always turns up.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Don't get mad, get even.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Honesty is the best policy.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
There's no smoke without fire.
One good deed deserves another.
A house is not a home.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Oil and water don't mix.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Walls have ears.
The wages of sin is death.
East is east, and west is west.
If you build it, they will come.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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