More Spanish Proverbs
When you can't get meat, chickens and bacon are good....
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For evil tongues, scissors....
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A great lance-thrust to a dead Moor....
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A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred....
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A fast day is the eve of a feast day....
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Other Proverbs
One must be either anvil or hammer....
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Better walk before a hen than behind an ox....
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Every one should sweep before his own door....
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In the year when plums flourish, all else fails....
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Adversity flatters no man....
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He who does not show himself, is overlooked.
- Spanish Proverb