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ut money will do more. Muck and money gae thegither. Muckle corn, muckle care. "Muckle din about ane," as the deil said when he stole the collier. Muckledom is nae virtue. Muckle fails that fools think. Muckle gifts mak beggars bauld. Muckle gude may it do you, and merry go doun, every lump as big as my thoom. A bad wish--that every bite may choke you. Muckle head, little wit. Muckle maun a gude heart thole. Muckle meat, mony maladies. Muckle mou'd folk are happy at their meat. Muckle musing mars the memory. Muckleness has nae mair, or else a cow could catch a hare. Muckleness is no manliness. Muckle pleasure, some pain. Muckle power maks mony faes. Muckle skaith comes to the shae before the heat comes to the tae. Muckle spoken, part spilt. So much was said on a subject that a great deal was lost. Muckle wad aye hae mair. The more a person has the more he would have. Muckle water rins by that the miller watsna o'. Muckle wi' thrift may aye be mair. "Must" is for the King to say. My market's made, ye may lick a whup-shaft. The saucy reply of a maid already betrothed, to a would-be wooer. My neighbour's skaith's my ain peril. My son's my son till he's got him a wife; my dochter's my dochter a' the days o' her life. My tongue's no under your belt. [Illustration] Naebody daur say Straa to him. Naebody is riving your claes to get you. Or going out of their wits for your sake. Nae butter will stick to my bread. That is, good fortune follows nothing I do. Nae carrion will kill a craw. Nae cows, nae care. Nae curb will tame love. Nae equal to you but our dog Sorkie, and he's dead, so ye're marrowless. Applied to boasters, meaning sarcastically that in their own peculiar faculty they are unequalled. Nae faut; but she sets her bannet ower weel. The only fault is, she is too good-looking. Nae fleeing frae fate. Nae fleeing without wings. Nae fools like auld anes. Nae faut that the cat has a clean band, she sets a bannet sae weel. "Ironically spoken to them who pretend to do, have, or wear what does not become them."--_Kelly._ Nae friend like the penny. Nae gain without pain. Nae great loss but there's some sma' 'vantage. Nae man can baith sup and blaw at ance. That is, sup his soup and cool it together; or, plainly, do two things at once. Nae m
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