More Italian Proverbs
A cat pent up becomes a lion....
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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get...
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Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out....
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight....
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Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant....
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Other Proverbs
Great scholars are not the shrewdest men....
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Where the thread is weakest it breaks....
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He who respects his parents never dies...
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He that ventures not fails not....
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Help you to salt, help you to sorrow....
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Spread the table and contention will cease
- Italian Proverb