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| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. |
| Greed |
| Big mouthfuls often choke. Italian. | 1 |
| Greed and the eye can no man fill. German. | 2 |
| Greedy folks have long arms. | 3 |
| Greedy chokes puppy. West Indian. | 4 |
| He has eat up the pot and asks for the pipkin. | 5 |
| The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy man. Seneca. | 6 |
| Whose carriage is greediness, his companion is beggary. Oriental. | 7 |
| Ye let little gae by you unless it be the swallow. | 8 |
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