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Plain oil cures every pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about pain

He plaints early that plaints on his kail.

Proverbs and old sayings

Language is not plain.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about language

If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

The abyss laughs at the plain.

Proverbs and old sayings

You must climb the mountain if you would see the plain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

You must scale the mountains if you would view the plain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

You must scale the mountain if you want to view the plain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

He that walks too hastily, often stumbles in plain way.

Proverbs and old sayings French

One who eats plain food is healthy.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about food

A man of good natural plain common sense.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about common sense, sense, good, good luck, man

Make every bargain clear and plain, that none may afterwards complain.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Speak plain -- call bread bread, and wine wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about wine

When there's love, mountains seem like plains.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love

An appetite is a true companion to plain bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Every beauty has some fault and every plain jane some grace.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about grace, beauty

Flattery sits in the parlour when plain dealing is kicked out of doors.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about flattering