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Wider ears and a shorter tongue.

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Will without reason is blind.

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Win first, love last.

Creeping Wheat

Grass.

Triticum Aristatum

Bearded Rye

Grass.

30

Wink at small faults.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. -Goldsmith.

Those who seek much lack much.

December 1

Wise men are not caught by wiles.

The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting.-Addison.

Thy eternal summer shall not fade.

2

Wit bought is twice taught.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.-Washington Irving.

Thy purse had better be empty than filled with other folk's money.

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Wit is the lightning of the mind.

December 1
Wit may be bought too dear.

2

With economy, few need be poor.

Sea Wheat

Grass

Hard Fescue
Oat Grass

Festuca Rubra.

3

Wood half burned is easily kindled.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread.-Burton.

Time is your best estate; be never prodigal of it.

4

Woman's work is never done.

True love's the gift which God hath

given

To man alone beneath the heaven.

Sir Walter Scott.

'Tis deeds must win the prize.

5

Wranglers never want words.

He is but the counterfeit of a man,
Who hath not the life of a man.

Shakespeare.

'Tis good to learn from the experi

ence of others.

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