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Scots proverbs, ancient and modern, selected from Allan Ramsay and others

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Kail hains bread.—Kame sindle came sair.—Kamesters are ay creeshy.

Keep woo and it will be dirt, keep lint and it will be silk.

Keep your ain fish guts to your ain sea-maws.

Keep your kill-dry’d taunts to your mouldy-hair’d maidens.

Keep your breath to cool your crowdie.

Keep your mouth close and your een open.

Kindness comes a-will, it canna be coft.

Kindness will creep whare it canna gang.

Kindle a candle at baith ends it will soon be done.

King’s cauff’s worth other fo’ks corn.—Kissing gans by favour.

King’s cheese gaes hauf awa in pairings.

Kiss a carl and clap a carl, and that’s the way to tine a carl.

Kythe in your ain colours that fo’k may ken you.

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