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Drop by drop the lake is drained.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Drop by drop wears away the stone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French, Italian)
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Drop the jest when it is most amusing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Dropping water makes the rock hollow, not by its force, but by
constant action.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Drown not thyself to save a drowning man.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Drumming is not the way to catch a hare.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts, and some devils.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Dry wood makes a quick fire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Ducats are clipped, pence are not.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Ducks quack loudly before a rain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Dull scissors make crooked-mouthed tailors.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Dumb dogs and still water are dangerous.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to
the measure of thy desire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arab)
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Each bay, its own wind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Fijian)
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Each hour injures, the last one slays.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Each man has his peculiar hobby.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Each man must ride the road of his own fate.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Darkovan)
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Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads its innocence.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Darkovan)
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Eagles catch no flies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Eagles do not breed doves.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German)
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Eagles don't catch flies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German)
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Early marriage, long love.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Early ripe, early rotten.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Early rising is most conducive to health.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and
wise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Early to rise and late to bed, lifts again the debtor's head.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Early, not late remedies are the most effective.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Earnestness and sport go well together.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Earth is dearer than gold.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Estonian)
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Easier to bend the body than the will.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Easier to rule a nation than a son.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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East or west, home is best.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German)
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East, west, home's best.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German)
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Easy come, easy go.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (American)
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Easy does it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (American)
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Easy to believe in heaven's law, but so hard to keep.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Easy to enroll a thousand soldiers. But, ah, one general!.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Easy to keep the castle that was never besieged.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Easy to know men's faces, not their hearts.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Easy to run downhill, much puffing to run up.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Easy to say is hard to do.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Greek)
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Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Eat bread that's light, and cheese by weight.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Eat coconuts while you have teeth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Singhalese)
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Eat of your own, and call yourself mine (i.e. Be my servant and
find yourself).
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Eat the wind and swallow bitterness.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Eat to live, not live to eat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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