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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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RAIN . 1330. RAIN. 1331. RAIN. Some rain, some rest.
RAIN . After rain comes fair weather.
RAIN . Small rain lays great dust.
RAINS . It never rains but it pours.
RAISE . Raise no more spirits than you can conjure down.
RE-TELLING . A story never loses by re-telling.
READY MONEY . Ready money will away.
REAL FRIEND . He is a real friend who assists one in a pinch.
REASON . If we do not hear reason she will one day make herself be heard.
REASON . There's reason in roasting of eggs.
RECEIVER . The receiver is as bad as the thief.
RECEIVERS . If there were no receivers there would be no thieves.
RECKLESS YOUTH . Reckless youth makes rueful age.
RECKONING . Fools always come short of their reckoning.
RECKONING . Short reckonings make long friends.
 
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Attemperate : a. Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.; v. t. To attemper.
 
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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