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2263 German Proverbs.1. "Age before beauty," said the devil as he threw his grandmother off' the stairs.2. "All freight lightens," said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.3. "An egg is an egg," said the beadle, but he took the goose-egg.4. "Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave," says the hangman to his man.5. "But" is a fence over which few leap.6. "Force me, and I shall commit no sin," said the girl.7. "Great cry and little wool," said the fool, when he sheared a pig.8. "Had I known" is a poor man.9. "I have had" is a poor man.10. "I have" is a better bird than "If I had." | |
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