828 Traditional Proverbs / Page 9
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Competition is the whetstone of talent.162.
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.163.
Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.164.
Contraries are cured by contraries.165.
Could everything be done twice it would be done better.166.
Curiosity killed the cat.167.
Curses are like chickens, they always come home.168.
Custom is a tyrant.169.
Danger past, God forgotten.170.
Dead men tell no tales.171.
Death defies the doctor.172.
Death is the great leveller.173.
Death is the poor man's best physician.174.
Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.175.
Divide and rule.176.
Do not drink poison to quench a thirst.177.
Do not dwell in a city whose governor is a physician.178.
Do not look to the peaceful man for cudgels.179.
Dog does not eat dog.180.
Doing is better than saying.