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Co-worker A, describing a local legend:

She was a great big tall horse-faced woman, mean as a snake, swore like a longshoreman.

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То take counsel of one's pillow.

То measure other people's corn by one's own bushel.

Hawks will not pick hawks' eyes.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

There is nothing more tragic in life than the utter impossibility of changing what you have done.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

A good heart's worth gold.

Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

Dog eats dog.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

thought.

An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

Women dress alike over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

The last drop makes the cup run over.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

Good health is above wealth.

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