1614 American Proverbs / Page 15
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Beauty is only skin deep.282.
Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.283.
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.284.
Before honor is humility.285.
Before marriage open your eyes wide; afterwards close them tightly.286.
Before you flare up at anyone's faults, take time to count ten of your own.287.
Begin in time to finish without hurry.288.
Benefits turn poison in bad minds.289.
Better a donkey that carries me than a horse that throws me.290.
Better a kindly fool than a proud wise man.291.
Better a little fire to warm us than a big one to burn us.292.
Better a small fish than an empty dish.293.
Better an old man's darling than a young man's slave.294.
Better be envied than pitied.295.
Better bend the neck than bruise the forehead.296.
Better buy than borrow.297.
Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot.298.
Better do little good than a great deal bad.299.
Better go around than fall into the ditch.300.
Better lose a jest than a friend.