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1. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of _______.
Answer: themselves
2. Take not a musket to kill a _______.
Answer: butterfly
3. Take the _______ with the smooth.
Answer: rough
4. Take the _______ for the deed.
Answer: will
5. Take things as you _______ them.
Answer: find
6. Take time by the _______.
Answer: forelock
7. _______ differ.
Answer: Tastes
8. A _______ never loses in the telling.
Answer: tale
9. There are as good _______ in the sea as ever came out of it.
Answer: fish
10. There are more ways of killing a _______ than by choking it with cream.
Answer: cat
11. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and _______.
Answer: statistics
12. There are tricks in every _______.
Answer: trade
13. There are _______ within wheels.
Answer: wheels
14. There is a sin of _______ as well as of commission.
Answer: omission
15. There is a _______ in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Answer: tide
16. There is a time to _______ and a time to be silent.
Answer: speak
17. There is _______ among thieves.
Answer: honor
18. There's many a _______ word spoken in jest.
Answer: true
19. There's no disputing about _______.
Answer: tastes
20. There's no fool like an _______ fool.
Answer: old
21. There's no peace for the _______.
Answer: wicked
22. There is no _______ without chaff.
Answer: wheat
23. There is nothing that _______ less than civility.
Answer: costs
24. They also _______ who only stand and wait.
Answer: serve
25. The _______ end of the wedge is dangerous.
Answer: thin
26. A thing you don't want is dear at any _______.
Answer: price
27. Things are seldom what they _______.
Answer: seem
28. Things done cannot be _______.
Answer: undone
29. Think not on what you _______ as much as on what you have.
Answer: lack
30. Through _______ to the stars.
Answer: hardship
31. Through obedience learn to _______.
Answer: command
32. Throw out a sprat to catch a _______.
Answer: mackerel
33. Time is the great _______.
Answer: healer
34. _______ flies.
Answer: Time
35. Times _______.
Answer: change
36. Too much _______ lost Paradise.
Answer: curiosity
37. Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no _______.
Answer: trifle
38. Truth is stranger than _______.
Answer: fiction
39. The truth will _______.
Answer: out
40. Two of a trade can never _______.
Answer: agree
41. Uneasy lies the _______ that wears the crown.
Answer: head
42. Virtue is its own _______.
Answer: reward
43. The voice of the _______ is the voice of God.
Answer: people
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