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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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YEARS . Years know more than books.
YES AND NO . 1869. YORKSHIRE. Yorkshire fashion--every man pay his share.
YOUNG . Old young, and old long.
YOURSELF . Help yourself and your friends will like you.
YOURSELF . If you want a thing done, do it yourself.
YOUTH . A growing youth hath a wolf in his stomach.
YOUTH . 1875. YOUTH. Youth and white paper take any impression.
YOUTH . Youth will have its swing.
YULE . Yule is good on Yule even. 1878. ZEAL. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
 
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Decrescent : a. Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.; n. A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
 
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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