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SACK . Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
SADDLE . Set the saddle on the right horse.
SADNESS . Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
SALMON . Salmon and sermon have their season in Lent.
SALT . Catch a bird by putting salt on its tail.
SAND . You can't make ropes of sand.
SAUCE . What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
SAUCE . Sweet meat must have some sauce.
SAVE . 1391. SAVE. Who will not save a penny, shall never have many.
SAVING . Saving is getting.
SAVING . It's useless saving at the spigot and spending at the bung-hole.
SAVING . Of saving cometh having.
SAY . Learn to say before you sing.
SAY WELL . 'Say well,' and 'do well,' end with one letter; 1399. SCABBED SHEEP. One scabbed sheep infects the whole flock.
SAYING . Saying and doing are two things.
 
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Misrule : v. t. & i. To rule badly; to misgovern.; n. The act, or the result, of misruling.; n. Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.

 
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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