828 Traditional Proverbs / Page 27
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Possession is nine tenths of the law.522.
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.523.
Poverty is not a crime.524.
Practice makes perfect.525.
Practice what you preach.526.
Practise what you preach.527.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.528.
Precept guides, but example draws.529.
Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.530.
Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.531.
Put an Irishman on the spit, and you can always get another Irishman to baste him.532.
Put off the evil hour as long as you can.533.
Quackery has no friend like gullibility.534.
Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.535.
Quicker by taking more time.536.
Quit not certainty for hope.537.
Rain before seven: fine before eleven.538.
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.539.
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.540.
Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.