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Corruption, Country and Courage : Proverbs
Key-Words Based Proverbs
Corruption :
One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
He that has to do with what is foul, never comes away clean.
He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice.
Power tempts to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts ab¬solutely.
A bribe will enter without knocking.
Neither bribe nor lose thy right.
Corruption of the best becomes the worst.
Who greases his way travels easily.
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound.
Country :
My country, right or wrong.
Happy is the country which has no history.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
What pity it is that we can die but once to serve our country.
Courage :
None but the brave deserves the fair.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
A man of courage never wants weapon.
A brave man's wounds are seldom on his back.
A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield.
Fortune favours the bold.
Courage and perseverance conquer all before them.
To the real hero life is a mere straw.
Great things are done more through courage than wis¬dom.
Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage can support him in it.
Calamity is the touch-stone of a brave mind.
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