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     It is not tint that a friend gets
     It is not what is she, but what has she
     It is past jouking wiven the head's aff
 425 It is well wared that wasters want
     Its well that our fauts are not written on our face
     It is the best spoke in your wheel
     It keeps his nose at the grind-stane
     It will be a feather out of your wing
 450 It was never for naething that the gled whistle
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     Keep something for a sair foot.
     Keep your ain fish-guts to your ain aea-maws
     Keep your tongue within your teeth
     Keep the feast to the feast day
     Keep the staff in your ain hand
 435 Keep your breath to cool your crowdie
     Keep your mouth close and your een open
     Kend fowk's nae company
     Kings and hears aft worry their keepers
     Kiss a sclate-stane, and that winna slaver you
 440 Kyth in your ain colours, that fouk may ken you
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     Laith to bed, and laith to rise
     Lang fasting hains nae meat
     Long looked for comes at last
 445 Lang fasting gathers wind
     Lang straes are nae motes
     Lang or ye saddle a foal
     Law's costly, tak a pint and gree
     Law-makers should na be law-breakers
 450 Laugh at leisure, ye may greet e'er night
     Lay the head of the sow to the tail of the grice
     Leave welcome behind ye
     Leave aff as lang's the play's good
     Learn you to an use and ye'll ca't custom
 455 Letna the plough stand to slay a mouse
     Let beli'd weathers break the sna
     Let him take a spring on his ain fiddle
     Let him cool in the skin he het in