More Italian Proverbs
Those who have fine clothes in their chests can wear rags....
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A cat pent up becomes a lion....
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Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant....
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High birth is a poor dish at table....
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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still...
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Fish or cut bait...
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Salt split is never all gathered....
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He did not invent gunpowder....
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He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his jo...
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Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitch...
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Praise a maid in the morning, and the weather at night.
- Italian Proverb