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1.- "If dry be the buck´s horn on Holy rood morn (14 September), ´tis worth a kist (chest) of gold; but if wet it be seen ere Holyrood ´een, bad harvest is foretold." (Yorkshire)
2.- "If it neither rains nor snows on Candlemas Day you may saddle your horse and go and buy hay." (Leicestershire)
3.- "Every bird loves to hear itself sing." (Connecticut)
4.- "If you cut down the trees you will find the wolf." (Massachusetts)
5.- "Measure the corn of others with your own bushel." (Massachusetts)
6.- "Honey is sweet, but the bee stings." (Vermont)
7.- "He that blows the dust fills his own eyes." (Vermont)
8.- "He that would have the fruit must scale the tree." (Vermont)
9.- "Great trees keep down little ones." (New Hampshire)
10.- "Hope is a good breakfast but a poor supper." (Vermont)
11.- "Deeds are fruits, words are leaves." (Maine)
12.- "He who plants trees love others besides himself." (Shropshire)
13.- "Large trees give more shade than fruit." (Shropshire)
14.- "As is the gardener, so is the garden." (Shropshire)
15.-"He who plants walnut tree expects not to eat of the fruit." (Shropshire)
16.-"Not every apple that is fair at eye is good, whatso men clap or cry."
17.- "Better is one apple given than two eaten."
18.- "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
19.- "Stolen apples are sweetest."
20.- "When the elm leaf is as big as a mouse´s ear, then sow thy barley never fear."
(Old English)
22.- "An eldern stake and blackthorn either, will make a hedge to last for ever." (Wiltshire)
23.- "A little learning is a dangerous thing." (Wisdom of the Orient)
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