The quills often took the flesh with them.
One debt won’t pay another.
There never came a gatherer but a scatterer came after him.
There’s none for bad shoes like the shoemaker’s wife.
No man ever gave advice but himself were the better for some of it.
A man of learning understands the half-word.
O’Brien’s gift and his two eyes after it (i.e., regretting it).