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• My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.

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  Thinking, People, Reform

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• Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

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  Wine, Water, Swim

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.23

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• Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

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  Animal, Use, Weapons

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• He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

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  War, Devil, Chaplains

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• A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

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  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

  John Ray (1827). “The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, etc”, p.36

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• In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.

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  Law, Pounds, Thousand

  "A Collection of English Proverbs".

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• Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

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  Listeners, Eavesdropping

  John Ray (1737). “A compleat Collection of English Proverbs, also the most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other Languages”, p.59

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• He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

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  Ballet, Fortune, Pipe

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.98

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• The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

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  Cat, Tails, Higher

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.88

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• A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.

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  Daughter, Mother, Light

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.47

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• Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

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  Soul, Counselor, Your Soul

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• If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

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  Horse, Wish, Might

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• The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.

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  Butterfly, Eye, Men

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• To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.

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  Cat, Hot

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.538

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• The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

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  Party, Men, Ignorant

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• Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

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  Wise, Adversity, Men

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• They that make laws must not break them.

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  Law, Break

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.527

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• Misery loves company.

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  Love, Misery, Company

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• Guilt is always jealous

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  Jealousy, Jealous, Guilt

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.118

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• I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.

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  Love Is, Pie, Pudding

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• Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

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  Children, Mad, Parent

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.4

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• Manners make often fortunes.

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  Manners, Fortune

  John Ray (1737). “A compleat Collection of English Proverbs, also the most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other Languages”, p.13

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• Every man praises his own wares.

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  Men, Praise, Every Man

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• That which is evil is soon learned.

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  Evil

  John Ray (1678). “A Collection of English Proverbs: Digested Into a Convenient Method for the Speedy Finding Any One Upon Occasion : with Short Annotations. : Whereunto are Added Local Proverbs with Their Explications, Old Proverbial Rhythmes, Less Known Or Exotick Proverbial Sentences, and Scottish Proverbs”, p.8

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• After a Christmas comes a Lent.

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  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.91

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