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English Proverbs : Proverb to Meaning V


Given the MEANING, identify the PROVERB

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1.

If you keep contact with bad people, you get spoiled.

  Touch pitch and be defiled.

  Every ass likes to hear himself bray.

  Two heads are better than one.

  Time and tide wait for no man.

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2.

If one is careful with things especially money, one will not lack them when needed.

  Time is a great healer.

  You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

  Waste not, want not.

  Walls have ears.

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3.

If one is determined, one will find a path to success.

  Where there's a will there's a way.

  Every ass likes to hear himself bray.

  Wake not a sleeping lion.

  You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.

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4.

Without risks, there are no rewards.

  To err is human.

  Nothing venture, nothing gain.

  Too many cooks spoil the broth.

  A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

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5.

You do me a favor and I will reciprocate.

  What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

  You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

  Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

  Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

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6.

We cannot assume anything is ours until we actually get it.

  Walls have ears.

  Wake not a sleeping lion.

  What's done cannot be undone.

  There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

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7.

If we are eagerly waiting for something, it seems to take forever to happen.

  A watched pot never boils.

  There is no smoke without fire.

  Touch pitch and be defiled.

  Time is a great healer.

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