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• The last drop makes the cup run over.
• The last straw breaks the camel's back.
• Laugh and grow fat.
• Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
• Learn to walk before you run.
• Lend your money and lose your friend.
• The leopard cannot change his spots.
• Let bygones be bygones.
• Let sleeping dogs lie.
• A liar is not believed when he tells the truth.
• Life is sweet.
• A light purse makes a heavy heart.
• Lightly come, lightly go.
• Like father, like son.
• A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse.
• Little by little and bit by bit.
• A little help is worth a deal of pity.
• A little learning is a dangerous thing.
• Little strokes fell great oaks.
• Live and learn.
• Live and let live.
• Live not to eat, but eat to live.
• The longest day must have an end.
• Look before you leap.
• Love is blind.
• Love will find a way.
• Make haste slowly.
• Make hay while the sun shines.
• Make the best of a bad job.
• A man is known by the company he keeps.
• Man proposes, God disposes.
• Many hands make light work.
• Marriages are made in heaven.
• Marriage is a lottery.
• Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
• Men are not to be measured in inches.
• Men leap over where the hedge is lowest.
• Men make houses, women make homes.
• Might is right.
• Money begets money.
• Money is the root of all evil.
• Money talks.
• More haste, less speed.
• More than enough is too much.
• Much would have more.
• The more you have, the more you want.
• The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
• The laborer is worthy of his hire.
• Least said, soonest mended.
• Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
• Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
• Let not your wits go wool-gathering.
• Let the buyer beware.
• Let the cobbler stick to his last.
• Let the world wag.
• Liars should have good memories.
• Life is not all beer and skittles.
• Life is short and time is swift.
• Light not a candle to the sun.
• Like master, like man.
• Like will to like.
• Listeners hear no good of themselves.
• Little and often fills the purse.
• Little pitchers have long ears.
• Little things please little minds.
• The longest way round is the nearest way home.
• Lookers-on see most of the game.
• Love laughs at locksmiths.
• Love me little, love me long.
• Love me, love my dog.
• The love of money is the root of all evil.
• Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your fence.
• Make the best of a bad bargain.
• Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.
• A man can only die once.
• A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.
• A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
• A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
• Manners make the man.
• Many a little makes a mickle.
• Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off.
• Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
• May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
• Men are blind in their own cause.
• Men strain at gnats and swallow camels.
• A mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
• The mills of God grind slowly.
• Misfortunes never come singly.
• A miss is as good as a mile.
• Moderation in all things.
• Money burns a hole in the pocket.
• More know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.
• Muck and money go together.
• Murder will out.

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