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Fine words dresse ill deedes.
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.