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The best mode of instruction is to practise what we preach.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

When the fox preaches then beware your geese.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Quhen the Tod preaches, beware of the hens.

Proverbs and old sayings

Ye canna preach out of your ain poupit.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

I'll mak a shift, as Macwhid did wi' the preachin'.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Don't preach, neither at home nor abroad.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about home

Who preaches to the deaf, wastes the sermon.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who preaches in the desert loses his sermon.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Practise what you preach.

Proverbs and old sayings

When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.

Proverbs and old sayings

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings about criminals

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

Proverbs and old sayings

The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.

Proverbs and old sayings German about saints

When a man's mode of life is contemptible, it follows that his preaching is treated with contempt.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contempt, life, man
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