Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
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Другие пословицы:
- A man can do no more than he can
- He that lives with cripples learns to limp
- The busiest man finds the most leisure
- He who is born a fool is never cured
- As plain as the nose on a man's face
- He is a fool that forgets himself
- Fools and madmen speak the truth
- A fool at forty is a fool indeed
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other
- To be head over ears in debt
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will
- A fool's tongue runs before his wit
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- A drowning man will catch at a straw