More Spanish Proverbs
A sooty chimney costs many a beef-steak....
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Don't spoil the ship for a halfpenny-worth of tar....
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A father's love, for all other is air....
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A good paymaster is keeper of other men's purses....
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Better go about than be drowned....
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Other Proverbs
One funeral makes many....
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A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves....
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Nine tailors make a man....
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From short pleasure long repentance....
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From a fallen tree, all make kindling...
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He who threatens to strike, and does not, is afraid.
- Spanish Proverb