Famous Proverbs
1911 Proverbs about America / Page 80
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To favor the ill is to injure the good.792.
A favor to come is better than a hundred received.793.
By others' faults wise men correct their own.794.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men leave them.795.
A fault confessed is half-redressed.796.
Fate can be taken by the horns, like a goat, and pushed in the right direction.797.
The fates lead the willing man; an unwilling man they drag.798.
A farmer on his knees is higher than a gentleman on his legs.799.
If you act as good as you look, you'll never shame your family.800.
Every family has at least one black sheep.