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1. Want is the _______ of industry.
Answer: mother
2. The way to a man's heart is through his _______.
Answer: stomach
3. We are all _______ of opinion.
Answer: slaves
4. We get what we deserve not what we _______.
Answer: desire
5. We soon _______ what we desire.
Answer: believe
6. The _______ goes to the wall.
Answer: weakest
7. What can you expect from a _______ but a grunt?
Answer: hog
8. What _______ little is little esteemed.
Answer: costs
9. What is a workman without his _______?
Answer: tools
10. What is bred in the _______ will never come out of the flesh.
Answer: bone
11. What's yours is _______, and what's mine is my own.
Answer: mine
12. What man has _______, man can do.
Answer: done
13. What may be done at _______ time is done at no time.
Answer: any
14. What _______ be must be.
Answer: must
15. What one _______ on the swings, one makes up on the roundabouts.
Answer: loses
16. What soberness conceals, _______ reveals.
Answer: drunkenness
17. What the eye doesn't see, the _______ doesn't grieve over.
Answer: heart
18. When in _______, do nowt.
Answer: doubt
19. When the wolf comes in at the door, love creeps out of the _______.
Answer: window
20. When the word is out, it _______ to another.
Answer: belongs
21. When _______ fall out, honest men come by their own.
Answer: thieves
22. Where _______ is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
Answer: ignorance
23. Where there's _______, there's brass.
Answer: muck
24. Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the _______.
Answer: pitcher
25. Who _______ to you will chatter of you.
Answer: chatters
26. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's _______?
Answer: wife
27. Who repairs not his gutters repairs his _______ house.
Answer: whole
28. _______ at first and lose at last.
Answer: Win
29. A wise man is never less _______ than when alone.
Answer: alone
30. Wise men learn by other's _______; fools by their own.
Answer: mistakes
31. The wish is _______ to the thought.
Answer: father
32. The worse _______ now, the better another time.
Answer: luck
33. Worse things happen at _______.
Answer: sea
34. The _______ of a thing is best known by the want of it.
Answer: worth
35. You cannot get a _______ into a pint pot.
Answer: quart
36. You cannot get _______ out of a stone.
Answer: blood
37. You cannot make a _______ purse out of a sow's ear.
Answer: silk
38. You cannot make bricks without _______.
Answer: straw
39. You cannot run with the _______ and hunt with the hounds.
Answer: hare
40. You cannot serve _______ and Mammon.
Answer: God
41. You may know by a handful the whole _______.
Answer: sack
42. You must _______ and bear it.
Answer: grin
43. You scratch my _______ and I'll scratch yours.
Answer: back
44. The _______ will sow their wild oats.
Answer: young
45. Youth will be _______.
Answer: served
46. Young blood must have its _______.
Answer: course
47. Zeal without _______ is a runaway horse.
Answer: knowledge
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