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The last drop makes the cup run over.
The last straw breaks the camel's back.
Laugh and grow fat.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Learn to walk before you run.
Lend your money and lose your friend.
The leopard cannot change his spots.
Let bygones be bygones.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
A liar is not believed when he tells the truth.
Life is sweet.
A light purse makes a heavy heart.
Lightly come, lightly go.
Like father, like son.
A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse.
Little by little and bit by bit.
A little help is worth a deal of pity.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Live and learn.
Live and let live.
Live not to eat, but eat to live.
The longest day must have an end.
Look before you leap.
Love is blind.
Love will find a way.
Make haste slowly.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Make the best of a bad job.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Many hands make light work.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Marriage is a lottery.
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
Men are not to be measured in inches.
Men leap over where the hedge is lowest.
Men make houses, women make homes.
Might is right.
Money begets money.
Money is the root of all evil.
Money talks.
More haste, less speed.
More than enough is too much.
Much would have more.
The more you have, the more you want.
The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
Least said, soonest mended.
Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Let not your wits go wool-gathering.
Let the buyer beware.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Let the world wag.
Liars should have good memories.
Life is not all beer and skittles.
Life is short and time is swift.
Light not a candle to the sun.
Like master, like man.
Like will to like.
Listeners hear no good of themselves.
Little and often fills the purse.
Little pitchers have long ears.
Little things please little minds.
The longest way round is the nearest way home.
Lookers-on see most of the game.
Love laughs at locksmiths.
Love me little, love me long.
Love me, love my dog.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your fence.
Make the best of a bad bargain.
Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.
A man can only die once.
A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
Manners make the man.
Many a little makes a mickle.
Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Men are blind in their own cause.
Men strain at gnats and swallow camels.
A mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
The mills of God grind slowly.
Misfortunes never come singly.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Moderation in all things.
Money burns a hole in the pocket.
More know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.
Muck and money go together.
Murder will out.

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