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  1. After a storm comes a calm.
  2. Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.
  3. Better have an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
  4. After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
  5. Burn not your house to frighten the mouse away.
  6. Draw the snake from its hole by another man’s hand.
  7. A good surgeon has an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand.
  8. Rules are made to be broken.
  9. A fox smells its own lair first.
  10. Fall behind in practice and your skills will be gone.
  11. At the work man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
  12. Poverty is a stranger to industry.
  13. One good action excuses a dozen bad ones.
  14. No piper can please all ears.
  15. Man proposes, God disposes.
  16. Let bygones be bygones.
  17. If the shoe fits, wear it.
  18. If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.
  19. He has two stomachs to eat and none to work.
  20. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.