Plato walking one’s self a day to the field with some of their friends. They were to see him Diogenes who was in to water untill the chin. The superficies of the water was snowed, for the reserve of the hole that Diogenes was made. “Don’t look it more told them Plato, and he shall get out soon.”
A day came a man consult this philosopher for to know at o’clock it was owe to eat. If thou art rich, told him eat when you shall wish; if you are poor, when you may do.
At the middle of a night very dark, a blind was walk in the streets with a light on the hand and a full jar upon the back. Some one which ran do meet him, and surprised of that light: “Simple that you are, told him, what serve you this light? The night and the day are not them the same thing by you!—It is not for me, was answering the blind, that I bring this light, it is to the and that the giddie swhich seem to you do not come to run against me, and make to break my jar.”
Idiotisms and Proverbs
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The necessity don’t know the low.
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Few, few the bird make her nest.
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He is not valuable to breat that he eat.
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Its are some blu stories.
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Nothing some money, nothing of Swiss.
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He sin in trouble water.
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A bad arrangement is better than a process.
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He has a good beak.
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In the country of blinds, the one eyed men are kings.
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To build castles in Espagnish.
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Cat scalded fear the cold water.
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To do the fine spirit.
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With a tongue one go to Roma.
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There is not any ruler without a exception.
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Take out the live coals with the hand of the cat.
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A horse baared don’t look him the tooth.
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Take the occasion for the hairs.
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To do a wink to some body.
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So many go the jar to spring, than at last rest there.
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He eat untill to can’t more.
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Which like Bertram, love hir dog.
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It want to beat the iron during it is hot.
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He is not so devil as he is black.
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It is better be single as a bad company.
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The stone as roll not heap up not foam.
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They shurt him the doar in face.
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He has fond the knuckle of the business.
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He turns as a weath turcocl.
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There is not better sauce who the appetite.
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The pains come at horse and turn one’s self at foot.
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He is beggar as a church rat.
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So much go the jar to spring that at last it break there.
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To force to forge, becomes smith.
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Keep the chestnut of the fire with the cat foot.
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Friendship of a child is water into a basket.
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At some thing the misforte is good.
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Burn the politeness.
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Tell me whom thou frequent, I will tell you which you are.
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After the paunch comes the dance.
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Of the hand to mouth, one lose often the soup.
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To look for a needle in a hay bundle.
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To craunch the marmoset.
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To buy cat in pocket.
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To be as a fish into the water.
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To make paps for the cats.
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To fatten the foot.
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To come back at their muttons.
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English as She Is Spoke
was published in 1855 by
Pedro Carolino and José da Fonseca.
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