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Look to the main chance.

Good order is the foundation of all things.—Burke.

Jests, like sweetmeats, have often

some sauce.

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Look twice ere you determine once.

Human experience, like the stern lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path we have passed over. — Coleridge.

Judge not of men or things at first sight.

Meadow Fescue

Grass.

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Lose nothing for asking.

When the heart is full, it is angry at all words that cannot come up to it. -Swift.

Keep good company, and be one of the number.

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Losers are always in the wrong.

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Lost time is never found again.

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Love is blind.

Marsh Bent Grass. (No. 4.)

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Love is the touchstone of virtue.

He that will keep monkey should pay for the glasses he breaks.--Seldon.

Knowledge of ourselves requires great penetration.

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Love me little, love me long.

He that is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.— Dr. S. Johnson.

Lament not the loss of that you cannot retrieve.

Wall Fescue

Grass.

6

Love me, love my dog.

We cannot be too much on our guard against reactions, lest we rush from one fault into another contrary fault.- Whately.

Learning is wealth to the poor, and an ornament to the rich.

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Lowly sit and be richly warm.

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Maidens must be seen, not heard.

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Make a virtue of necessity.

Upright Annual
Brome Grass.

Roughish Meadow

Grass.

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Make hay while the sun shines.

A beautiful eye maketh silence eloquent; a kind eye makes contradiction an assent; an enraged eye makes beauty deformed.-Addison.

Learn to live as you would wish to die.

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Make not a toil of your pleasure.

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.-Burke.

Let men take heed of their company.

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Make the best of a bad bargain.

He is surely most in want of another's patience who has none of his own.— Lavater.

Let not every one deal by your own watch.

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