1614 American Proverbs / Page 19
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Choose you friends like your books: few but choice.362.
Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.363.
Choose your love, then love your choice.364.
Christmas comes, but once a year is enough.365.
Clean around your own back door before you clean around someone else's.366.
Clean your own doorstep before you clean someone else's.367.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.368.
Close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades.369.
Close, but no cigar.370.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.371.
Coming events cast their shadows before.372.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances precarious.373.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.374.
Common sense is very uncommon with a lot of people.375.
Company in distress makes trouble less.376.
Comparisons make enemies of our friends.377.
Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof.378.
Conceit is the self satisfaction of a jackass.379.
Condition is 90 percent of the game.380.
Confide not in him who has deceived you.