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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Manners maketh the man.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
A man is known by his friends.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
Waste not, want not.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Give credit where credit is due.
Needs must when the devil drives.
It never rains but it pours.
Laughter is the best medicine.
You can't always get what you want.
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
Love is blind.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Nothing succeeds like success.
What goes up must come down.
In the midst of life we are in death.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
A picture paints a thousand words.
The customer is always right.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
All good things must come to an end.
The end justifies the means.
You are what you eat.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Two heads are better than one.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
There's one born every minute.
Truth will out.
Bad news travels fast.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Live and learn.
Less is more.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
No man can serve two masters.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Great minds think alike.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
When in Rome, do as Romans do.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
All's well that ends well.
If you build it, they will come.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.
One hand washes the other.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Man does not live by bread alone.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Small things amuse small minds.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
More haste, less speed.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
The Devil looks after his own.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Grief divided is made lighter.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
To every thing there is a season.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Forgive and forget.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Practice what you preach.
Different strokes for different folks.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
He who hesitates is lost.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Silence construes consent.
Live and let live.
One swallow does not a summer make.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
A poor worker blames the tools.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Once bitten, twice shy.
First come, first served.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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