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1. _______ your own canoe.
Answer: Paddle
2. Patience is a _______.
Answer: virtue
3. The _______ is mightier than the sword.
Answer: pen
4. Penny wise, pound _______.
Answer: foolish
5. A _______ for everything, and everything in its place.
Answer: place
6. Pleasant hours fly _______.
Answer: fast
7. The pot called the _______ black.
Answer: kettle
8. Poverty is no _______.
Answer: sin
9. Practice makes _______.
Answer: perfect
10. Practise what you _______.
Answer: preach
11. Prevention is better than _______.
Answer: cure
12. The proof of the _______ is in the eating.
Answer: pudding
13. The purse of the patient protracts the _______.
Answer: disease
14. Put the _______ on the right horse.
Answer: saddle
15. Rats desert a sinking _______.
Answer: ship
16. Respect is greater from a _______.
Answer: distance
17. A rich man's joke is always _______.
Answer: funny
18. A rolling _______ gathers no moss.
Answer: stone
19. _______ was not built in a day.
Answer: Rome
20. The rotten _______ injures its neighbors.
Answer: apple
21. Saying is one thing and _______ another.
Answer: doing
22. _______ is believing.
Answer: Seeing
23. Set a _______ to catch a thief.
Answer: thief
24. Silence is _______.
Answer: golden
25. _______ and steady wins the race.
Answer: Slow
26. Slow but sure wins the _______.
Answer: race
27. A soft _______ turneth away wrath.
Answer: answer
28. Some are _______ and some are otherwise.
Answer: wise
29. Some people cannot see the _______ for the trees.
Answer: wood
30. Spare the _______ and spoil the child.
Answer: rod
31. Speak the _______ and shame the devil.
Answer: truth
32. Speech is silver, _______ is golden.
Answer: silence
33. The _______ is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Answer: spirit
34. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but _______ will never hurt me.
Answer: words
35. A still _______ makes a wise head.
Answer: tongue
36. Still waters run _______.
Answer: deep
37. A stitch in _______ saves nine.
Answer: time
38. The strength of the _______ is in the weakest link.
Answer: chain
39. Strike while the _______ is hot.
Answer: iron
40. Success has many _______.
Answer: friends
41. Per _______ ad astra.
Answer: ardua
42. The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is _______ at last.
Answer: broken
43. Possession is nine points of the _______.
Answer: law
44. Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to _______ it.
Answer: quench
45. Praise makes good men _______ and bad men worse.
Answer: better
46. Praise without _______ puts little in the pot.
Answer: profit
47. Procrastination is the _______ of time.
Answer: thief
48. Promises are like pie-crust, made to be _______.
Answer: broken
49. The proper study of _______ is man.
Answer: mankind
50. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own _______, and in his own house.
Answer: country
51. Prosperity makes _______, adversity tries them.
Answer: friends
52. Providence is always on the _______ of the big batallions.
Answer: side
53. Punctuality is the politeness of _______.
Answer: kings
54. Queen _______ is dead.
Answer: Anne
55. Rain before seven, _______ before eleven.
Answer: fine
56. The _______ is as bad as the thief.
Answer: receiver
57. The _______ may be worse than the disease.
Answer: remedy
58. Revenge is _______.
Answer: sweet
59. The road to _______ is paved with good intentions.
Answer: hell
60. A _______ by any other name would smell as sweet.
Answer: rose
61. Safety lies in the _______ course.
Answer: middle
62. Second thoughts are _______.
Answer: best
63. Self-praise is no _______.
Answer: recommendation
64. Self-preservation is the first _______ of nature.
Answer: law
65. Set a _______ on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
Answer: beggar
66. Share and _______ alike.
Answer: share
67. The shortest way round is the _______ way home.
Answer: longest
68. Silence gives _______.
Answer: consent
69. So many countries, so many _______.
Answer: customs
70. Sow the _______ and reap the whirlwind.
Answer: wind
71. Speak fair and _______ what you like.
Answer: think
72. Speak _______ of the dead.
Answer: well
73. The sting of a reproach is the _______ of it.
Answer: truth
74. Stolen pleasures are _______.
Answer: sweetest
75. A _______ will show which way the wind blows.
Answer: straw
76. Stretch your _______ according to your coverlet.
Answer: legs
77. Submitting to one wrong brings on _______.
Answer: another
78. Sufficient unto the _______ is the evil thereof.
Answer: day
79. The _______ is never the worse for shining on a dunghill.
Answer: sun
80. Sweet are the _______ of adversity.
Answer: uses
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