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Proverbs starting with the letter I

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I a lazy lout, you a lazy lout, marry me, Antonia.

I am just as good as you are, and a damned sight better.

I am like you and you like me. the devil united us.

I am neither at the ford nor the bridge.

I broke my leg, perhaps for my good.

I dance to the tune that is played.

I do not tell thee what thou art, thou wilt tell it thyself.

I don't count them to you, wife, but a hog makes twelve puddings.

I don't want it, I don't want it, but put it into my hood.

I don't want the cheese; I just want out of the trap.

I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one.

I have a good jacket in France.

I have other fish to fry

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

I know well what I say when I ask for bread.

I know what I know, but will say nothing about it.

I left what I knew for what I heard praised, and repented.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?

I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath.

I never saw a silent rich man.

I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as one that settled be.

I never was satisfied with "I will, I will." One "take this" is better than two "I will give you."

I perfectly feel even at my fingers end.

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