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| A priest must be the guardian of truth. German. | 1 |
| A priest’s pocket is not easily filled. Danish. | 2 |
| Bad priests bring the devil into the church. | 3 |
| Either fight not with priests or beat them to death. German. | 4 |
| Give the priest a drink for the clerk is thirsty. Italian. | 5 |
| If a priest be a priest, if a ploughman be a ploughman. Modern Greek. | 6 |
| It is just the priest should live by the altar. French. | 7 |
| Lang standing and little offering makes a poor priest. | 8 |
| Like priest, like people. | 9 |
| Priests pay each other no tithes. German. | 10 |
| Priests pray for enemies but princes kill. Shakespeare. | 11 |
| Priests should not prate out of the confessional. | 12 |
| Such as the priest, such is the clerk. | 13 |
| That priest is a fool who decries his relics. Italian. | 14 |
| The bites of priests and wolves are hard to heal. German. | 15 |
| The priest does more than the physician. German. | 16 |
| The priest forgets that he was a clerk. | 17 |
| The priest to his book; the peasant to his plough. Danish. | 18 |
| The priests ought not to survive their temples. Tacitus. | 19 |
| The quarrel of priests is the devil’s jubilee. German. | 20 |
| Vilify not your parish priest. | 21 |
| When the priest visits you do not be overjoyed; he will soon begin to beg. Russian. | 22 |
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