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It is folly to drown on dry land.
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It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid.
Source: (Danish)
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It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.
Source: (Danish)
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It is folly to take a thorn out of another's foot and put it into
your own.
Source: (Danish)
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It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at
Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.
Source: (Danish)
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It is good to lend to God and to the soil--they pay good
interest.
Source: (Danish)
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It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.
Source: (Danish)
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It is hard to glean after a niggardly husbandman.
Source: (Danish)
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It is hard to labour with an empty belly.
Source: (Danish)
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It is hard to live in Rome and strive against the Pope.
Source: (Danish)
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It is hard to lure hawks with empty hands.
Source: (Danish)
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It is hard to make a fire on a cold hearth.
Source: (Danish)
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It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.
Source: (Danish)
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It is hard to sail without wind, and to grind without water.
Source: (Danish)
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It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Source: (Danish)
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It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean.
Source: (Danish)
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It is no use hiding from a friend what is known to an enemy.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not all gold that glitters.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not all who turn their backs that flee.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not easy to guard the hen that lays her eggs abroad.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not easy to know your butter in another man's cabbage.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not easy to pluck hairs from a bald pate.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not easy to sting a bear with a straw.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in
the sapling.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not easy to walk upon the devil's ice.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not every hog that the crow will ride.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not every man that can carry a falcon on his hand.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not every one who takes the right sow by the ear.
Source: (Danish)
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"It is not for my own sake," said the fox, "that I say there is a
good goose-green in the wood."
Source: (Danish)
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It is not for nothing that the devil lays himself down in the
ditch.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not for the good of the cow when she is driven in a
carriage.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not for the swan to teach eaglets to sing.
Source: (Danish)
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It is not the surplice that makes parson or clerk.
Source: (Danish)
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It is of no use making shoes for geese.
Source: (Danish)
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It is only the blind who ask why they are loved who are fair.
Source: (Danish)
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It is pleasant driving when there is no danger of upsetting.
Source: (Danish)
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It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg, that another
has broken his neck.
Source: (Danish)
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It is possible for a ram to kill a butcher.
Source: (Danish)
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It is safe to lend barley to him who has oats.
Source: (Danish)
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It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey.
Source: (Danish)
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It is time enough to take off your hat when you see the man.
Source: (Danish)
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It is too late to cover the well when the child is drowned.
Source: (Danish)
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It is too late to cry cat, when the bacon is eaten.
Source: (Danish)
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It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is
burnt down.
Source: (Danish)
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It is useless to gape against an oven.
Source: (Danish)
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It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a
book.
Source: (Danish)
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It is well to have clean bread in one's wallet.
Source: (Danish)
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It must be a hard winter when one wolf devours another.
Source: (Danish)
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It needs a high wall to keep out fear.
Source: (Danish)
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It needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.
Source: (Danish)
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