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1. The laborer is worthy of his _______.
Answer: hire
2. Least said, _______ mended.
Answer: soonest
3. Let not the _______ go down on your wrath.
Answer: sun
4. Let not thy left _______ know what thy right hand doeth.
Answer: hand
5. Let not your _______ go wool-gathering.
Answer: wits
6. Let the buyer _______.
Answer: beware
7. Let the cobbler _______ to his last.
Answer: stick
8. Let the _______ wag.
Answer: world
9. Liars should have good _______.
Answer: memories
10. Life is not all _______ and skittles.
Answer: beer
11. Life is short and _______ is swift.
Answer: time
12. Light not a _______ to the sun.
Answer: candle
13. Like _______, like man.
Answer: master
14. Like will to _______.
Answer: like
15. Listeners hear no _______ of themselves.
Answer: good
16. Little and _______ fills the purse.
Answer: often
17. Little pitchers have long _______.
Answer: ears
18. Little things please little _______.
Answer: minds
19. The longest way round is the _______ way home.
Answer: nearest
20. Lookers-on see most of the _______.
Answer: game
21. Love _______ at locksmiths.
Answer: laughs
22. Love me _______, love me long.
Answer: little
23. Love me, love my _______.
Answer: dog
24. The love of money is the root of all _______.
Answer: evil
25. Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your _______.
Answer: fence
26. Make the _______ of a bad bargain.
Answer: best
27. Make yourself all _______ and the flies will devour you.
Answer: honey
28. A man can only die _______.
Answer: once
29. A man is as old as he _______, and a woman as old as she looks.
Answer: feels
30. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of _______.
Answer: weeds
31. A man without a smiling face must not open a _______.
Answer: shop
32. _______ make the man.
Answer: Manners
33. Many a _______ makes a mickle.
Answer: little
34. Many kiss the hand they wish to _______ off.
Answer: cut
35. Many would be _______ if they had courage enough.
Answer: cowards
36. May God defend me from my _______; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Answer: friends
37. Men are _______ in their own cause.
Answer: blind
38. Men strain at gnats and swallow _______.
Answer: camels
39. A mill cannot grind with the _______ that is past.
Answer: water
40. The mills of God grind _______.
Answer: slowly
41. Misfortunes never come _______.
Answer: singly
42. A miss is as good as a _______.
Answer: mile
43. Moderation in all _______.
Answer: things
44. Money burns a hole in the _______.
Answer: pocket
45. More know Tom Fool than Tom Fool _______.
Answer: knows
46. Muck and _______ go together.
Answer: money
47. Murder will _______.
Answer: out
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