More Italian Proverbs
Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble....
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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason...
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What does not poison fattens....
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No pear falls into a shut mouth....
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Who sows thorns should not go barefoot....
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Other Proverbs
There is no mother like the mother that bore us....
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Who spits against heaven, it falls on his head....
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In a smith's house the knife is wooden....
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Nature goes her own way....
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No one would be an innkeeper but for money....
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Better a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all.
- Italian Proverb