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Better be envied than pitied.
Better be alane than in ill company.
Better be idle than ill employed.
Better belly burst than good meat spill.
120 Better buy than borrow.
Better find iron thaa tine siller.
Better haud by a hair than draw with a tether.
Better hand loose than in an ill tethering.
125 Better kiss a knave than cast out with him.
Better keep well than make well.
Better lang something than soon naething
Better leave to my foes than beg frae my friends.
Better rue sit than rue flit.
130 Better sit idle than work for nought.
Better skaith saved than mends made.
Better sma fish than nae fish.
Better the ill kened than the good unkend.
Better to haud than draw.
135 Better wait on the cook than the doctor.
Better wear shoon than sheets.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Birth’s good, but breeding s better.
Blind men should na judge of colours.
140 Blood’s thicker than water.
Burnt bairns the fire dreads.
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Cadgers have ay mind of lade saddles.
Cast a bane in the de’il’s teeth.
Charity begins at hame.
145 Come uncalled sits unserved.
Come to my Land like the bowel of a pint stoup.
Come with the wind, and gae with the water.
Confess debt and crave day.
Corn him well, he will work the better.
150 Count again is not forbidden.
Count siller after all your kin.
Count like Jews and gree like brethren.
Counsel Is nae command.
