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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An Irish proverb is relevant here -- 'You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather is.'
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Do you remember this old proverb : 'When poverty comes in the door, love flies out of the window'?
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In reply, he quoted a Sanskrit proverb : 'Forgiveness is the ornament of the brave'.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A proverb in fact from hell.
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After frontal damage, the patient may just paraphrase the proverb .
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He grinned and then uttered a Swahili proverb .
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Maxims, proverbs, and other forms of folk wisdom give a person reasons for obeying rules.
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She was an encyclopaedia of superstitions and proverbs.
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Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will never hurt us, as the noted proverb has it.
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There is as it happens an Anglo-Saxon proverb analogous to Lord Acton's, but still significantly different.