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Proverbs starting with S

1: Safe bind, safe find
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2: Salt water and absence wash away love.
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3: Save us from our friends,
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4: Saying and doing are two things.
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5: Score twice before you cut once.
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6: Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
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7: Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar
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8: Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
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9: Second thoughts are best,
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10: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
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11: Seeing is believing
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12: Seek and you shall find
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13: Self done is soon done.
Self done is well done.
means that:

14: Self done is well done.
said to mean that:

15: Self is a bad counselor.
because :

16: Self-praise is no recommendation.
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17: Sending a baby on an errand
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18: Set a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride to the devil.
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19: Set a thief to catch a thief.
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20: Shallow streams make most din.
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21: Short debts make long friends.
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22: Shrouds have no pockets,
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23: Sickness in the body brings sadness to the mind.
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24: Silence gives consent.
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25: Silence is a woman's best garment,
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26: Since Adam was a boy.
expression meaning:

27: sing before breakfast, cry before night
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28: Sink or swim.
advices that:

29: Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
said when :

30: Slow and steady wins the race.
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31: Slow but sure.
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32: Small choice is rotten apples
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33: Smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
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34: So many countries, so many customs.
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35: So many men, so many minds.
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36: Soft beds make hard battles
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37: Soft fire makes sweet malt.
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38: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .
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39: Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
expresses that:

40: Soon ripe, soon rotten.
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41: Spare the rod and spoil the child.
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42: Speak of the devil and he will appear.
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43: Speech is silver but silence is gold.
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44: Standers-by see more than gamesters.
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45: Start is the half of everything.
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46: Still waters run deep.
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47: Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
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48: Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.
advices that:

49: Strike while the iron is hot.
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50: Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
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51: Such carpenters, such chips.
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52: Sweep before your own door.
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