128 Darkovan Proverbs / Page 9
- 81. Only a race horse or a Comyn lord is judged by his pedigree.
 - 82. Only men laugh, only men weep, only men dance.
 - 83. Put no faith in a drunkard's prophecy, another man's dog, or the weather at any season.
 - 84. Rats make havoc in the kitchen when the cat's a kitten.
 - 85. Take care how you beseech the gods for a gift, for they will give it to you.
 - 86. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
 - 87. That land fares ill where the king's but a babe.
 - 88. The best horse can't wear two saddles.
 - 89. The dead cannot come to kinsmen's aid.
 - 90. The dead in heaven is too happy to grieve for indignities to his corpse; the dead in hell has too much else to grieve for.

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