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The bow may be bent until it breaks.
Source: (Danish)
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The branch is seldom better than the stem.
Source: (Danish)
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The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook.
Source: (Danish)
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The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather.
Source: (Danish)
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The church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers.
Source: (Danish)
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The cock often crows without a victory.
Source: (Danish)
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The corn that is taken to a bad mill. will be badly ground.
Source: (Danish)
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The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse.
Source: (Danish)
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
Source: (Danish)
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The crow will find its mate.
Source: (Danish)
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The curse on the hearth wounds the deepest.
Source: (Danish)
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The customer is always right.
Source: (Danish)
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The day is never so holy that the pot refuses to boil.
Source: (Danish)
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The day is sure to come when the cow will want her tail.
Source: (Danish)
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The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod.
Source: (Danish)
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The dog that is forced into the woods will not hunt many deer.
Source: (Danish)
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The dog will not get free by biting his chain.
Source: (Danish)
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The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.
Source: (Danish)
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The drunken man's joy is often the sober man's sorrow.
Source: (Danish)
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The earth is always frozen to lazy swine.
Source: (Danish)
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The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot.
Source: (Danish)
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The eye of the master makes the horse fat.
Source: (Danish)
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The eye of the master will do more than both his hands.
Source: (Danish)
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The fat sow knows not what the hungry sow suffers.
Source: (Danish)
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The fire burns brightest on one's own hearth.
Source: (Danish)
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The fire heeds little whose cloak it burns.
Source: (Danish)
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The fire is welcome within, when icicles hang without.
Source: (Danish)
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The first bird get the first grain.
Source: (Danish)
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The flame is not far from the smoke.
Source: (Danish)
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The flitch hangs never so high but a dog will look out for the
bone.
Source: (Danish)
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The foot of the farmer manures the field.
Source: (Danish)
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The foot of the owner is the best manure for his land.
Source: (Danish)
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The forest has ears, and field has eyes.
Source: (Danish)
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The fox does not go twice into the same trap.
Source: (Danish)
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The generous man grows rich in giving, the miser poor in taking.
Source: (Danish)
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The goose goes so often into the kitchen, till at last she sticks
to the spit.
Source: (Danish)
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The goose that has a good gander cackles loudly.
Source: (Danish)
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The goose that has lost its head no longer cackles.
Source: (Danish)
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The greater the fear the nearer the danger.
Source: (Danish)
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The hen flies not far unless the cock flies with her.
Source: (Danish)
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The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle.
Source: (Danish)
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The hen lives by pickings, as the lion by prey.
Source: (Danish)
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The herb patience does not grow in every man's garden.
Source: (Danish)
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The heron blames the water because he cannot swim.
Source: (Danish)
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The horse must go to the manger, and not the manger to the horse.
Source: (Danish)
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The is worthy of sweets, who has tasted bitters.
Source: (Danish)
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The issue of all contention is uncertain. [Witness the glorious
uncertainty of the law, and of the turf.]
Source: (Danish)
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The laggard cow gets the sour grass.
Source: (Danish)
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The Lord will not fail to come, though he may not come on
horseback.
Source: (Danish)
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The man who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Source: (Danish)
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