68 Manx Proverbs / Page 5
- 41. Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our neighbours is of less consequence than the smallest of our own.
 - 42. The black ox never stamps on his own foot.
- 43. The coroner and the lawyer grow fat on the quarrels of fools.
- 44. The crooked bannock straightens the body.
- 45. The greatest pleasure in life lies in doing that which people say we cannot do.
- 46. The little hemlock is sister to the great hemlock.
- 47. The man who looks after his own work has plenty to do to keep everything right.
- 48. The man who minds his own business well has always enough to do.
- 49. The more a man catches the more he'll have.
- 50. The remembrance of the heart is better than the remembrance of the head.
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