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| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. |
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| Close sits my shirt but closer my skin. | 1 |
| He that has more smocks than shirts in a bucking, Had need be a man of good forelooking. Chaucer. | 2 |
| He that has no shirt wishes every day for ten yards of cloth. Turkish. | 3 |
| My shirt is nearer than my cloak. Dutch. | 4 |
| Near is my shirt but nearer is my skin. | 5 |
| The shirt is nearer than the doublet. Italian, Spanish, Danish. | 6 |
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