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1. Idle folk have the least _______.
Answer: leisure
2. If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on _______.
Answer: me
3. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing _______.
Answer: well
4. If the _______ will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Answer: mountain
5. If you do not _______ it, you may lump it.
Answer: like
6. If you want _______, prepare for war.
Answer: peace
7. Ill _______ comes apace.
Answer: news
8. An ill payer never wants an _______.
Answer: excuse
9. Ill _______ grow apace.
Answer: weeds
10. _______ is the sincerest form of flattery.
Answer: Imitation
11. In a _______ sea, every man is a pilot.
Answer: calm
12. In for a _______, in for a pound.
Answer: penny
13. In peace, prepare for _______.
Answer: war
14. In _______ veritas.
Answer: vino
15. In wine, there is _______.
Answer: truth
16. It is a sad house where the _______ crows louder than the cock.
Answer: hen
17. It's an ill _______ that blows nobody any good.
Answer: wind
18. It is as well to know which way the wind _______.
Answer: blows
19. It is better to wear out than to _______ out.
Answer: rust
20. It's dogged that _______ it.
Answer: does
21. It is easy to _______ the misfortunes of others.
Answer: bear
22. It is good fishing in _______ waters.
Answer: troubled
23. It is ill jesting with edged _______.
Answer: tools
24. It is ill striving against the _______.
Answer: stream
25. It is ill waiting for _______ men's shoes.
Answer: dead
26. It is the _______ that always happens.
Answer: unexpected
27. It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second _______ well.
Answer: fiddle
28. It takes all _______ to make a world.
Answer: sorts
29. It will be all the same a hundred _______ hence.
Answer: years
30. _______ not, that ye be not judged.
Answer: Judge
31. Kind _______ are more than coronets.
Answer: hearts
32. Know your own faults before _______ others for theirs.
Answer: blaming
33. _______ is power.
Answer: Knowledge
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