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It has been blowing hard--the dirt has been blown into high
places.
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It is a bad hand that refuses to guard the head.
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It is a bad hen that lays her eggs away from the farm.
Source: (Danish)
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It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece.
Source: (Danish)
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It is a bad well that need water to be carried to it.
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It is a base thing to tear a dead lion's beard off.
Source: (Danish)
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It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in the cat's ear.
Source: (Danish)
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It is a great art to laugh at you own misfortune.
Source: (Danish)
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It is a lazy bird that will not build its own nest.
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It is a poor horse that is not worth his oats.
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It is a poor roast that gives no dripping.
Source: (Danish)
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It is an ill turn that does no good to any one.
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It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
Source: (Danish)
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It is as bad to spit out the fire and be shamed, as it is to
swallow it and be burnt.
Source: (Danish)
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It is as cheap sitting as standing.
Source: (Danish)
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It is as much intemperance to weep too much, as to laugh too
much.
Source: (Danish)
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It is as well to be naked as to have no covering.
Source: (Danish)
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It is bad for puppies to play with bear-cubs.
Source: (Danish)
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It is bad iron in which there is no steel.
Source: (Danish)
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It is bad to be between two fires.
Source: (Danish)
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It is bad to lean against a falling wall.
Source: (Danish)
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It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the
new.
Source: (Danish)
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It is best to be on the safe side.
Source: (Danish)
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It is best to play with equals.
Source: (Danish)
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It is best to trust to two anchors. [Have two strings to your
bow.]
Source: (Danish)
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It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly.
Source: (Danish)
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It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison.
Source: (Danish)
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It is better to scrape the cheese than to peel it.
Source: (Danish)
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It is bitter fare to eat one's own words.
Source: (Danish)
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It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the
stones at your head.
Source: (Danish)
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It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb.
Source: (Danish)
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It is difficult to get many heads under one hat.
Source: (Danish)
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It is difficult to hide what everybody knows.
Source: (Danish)
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It is difficult to spit honey out of a mouth full of gall.
Source: (Danish)
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It is difficult to tie an unborn horse to the manger.
Source: (Danish)
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It is difficult to trap an old fox.
Source: (Danish)
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It is discreditable to fly from a living enemy, or to abuse a
dead one.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easier to fill a rogue's belly than his eye.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easier to stem the brook than the river.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all
that follow it.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easy to be generous out of another man's purse.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easy to be generous with another man's money.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get
rid of him.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easy to find the rod when another finds the bottom.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easy to manage when fortune favors.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easy to poke another man's fire.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easy to stride a tree when it is down.
Source: (Danish)
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It is easy to swim, when another holds up your head.
Source: (Danish)
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"It is easy to work with a good comb," said the devil, when he
combed his mother's hair with a pitchfork."
Source: (Danish)
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