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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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GALLED HORSE . Touch a galled horse, and he will wince.
GAPETH . 664. GARDEN. Many things grow in the garden that were never planted there.
GARDENING . 666. GARLAND. One flower makes no garland.
GEMS . Gems must not be valued by what they are set in.
GENTILITY . Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
GENTLE STROKES . Gentle strokes make the sweetest harmony.
GET . 'Tis the stone which will turn your lead into gold.
GIFT . A gift with a kind countenance is a double gift.
GIFT HORSE . Look not a gift horse in the mouth.
GIVE . To give and keep there is need of wit.
GIVETH . He giveth twice who gives in a trice.
GIVING . 676. GLADNESS. A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
GLASS . What your glass tells you will not be told by counsel.
GLASS . 679. GLASS HOUSES. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
GLASSES . The more women look in their glasses, the less they look to their houses.
 
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Cryptographal : a. Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical.
 
Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston, published originally in 1880 in London by Whittaker & Co
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