More Spanish Proverbs
Where they eat your meat let them pick the bones....
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If the sky falls we shall catch larks....
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From snow, whether baked or boiled, you will get nothing but water....
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Custom becomes law....
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Copper begets copper, and not ()the labour of) men's bones....
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Other Proverbs
Better be mad with all the world than wise alone....
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The bad workman blames his tools....
(American) >>
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness....
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals...
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A giant among the pigmies....
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God take you, pound (of flax), drunk out and not yet spun.
- Spanish Proverb