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- the age of miracles is past
- the apple never falls far from the tree
- the best defense is a good offense
- the best doctors are Dr Diet, Dr Quiet, and Dr Merryman
- the best is the enemy of the good
- the best of friends must part
- the best of men are but men at best
- the best things come in small packages
- the best things in life are free
- the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley
- the better the day, the better the deed
- the bigger they are, the harder they fall
- the bleating of the kid excites the tiger
- the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church
- the bread never falls but on its buttered side
- the busiest men have the most leisure
- the buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one
- the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf who keeps the caribou strong
- the cat would eat fish, but would not wet her feet
- the cat, the rat, and Lovell the dog, rule all England under the hog
- the child is the father of the man
- the Church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers
- the cobbler to his last and the gunner to his linstock
- the company makes the feast
- the course of true love never did run smooth
- the cowl does not make the monk
- the customer is always right
- the darkest hour is just before the dawn
- the devil can quote Scripture for his own ends
- the devil finds work for idle hands to do
- the devil is in the details
- the devil is not so black as he is painted
- the devil looks after his own
- the devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers
- the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; the devil was well, the devil a saint was he!
- the devil’s children have the devil’s luck
- the difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer
- the dog returns to its vomit
- the early bird catches the worm
- the early man never borrows from the late man
