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Where the carrion is, there the eagles gather.
Source: (Danish)
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Where there is discipline there is virtue; where there is peace
there is plenty.
Source: (Danish)
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Where there is no wit within no wit will come out.
Source: (Danish)
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Where will is right, law is banished.
Source: (Danish)
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Where you cannot climb over, you must creep under.
Source: (Danish)
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While the dogs yelp, the hare flies to the wood.
Source: (Danish)
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While the grass is growing the mare dies.
Source: (Danish)
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While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones.
Source: (Danish)
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Wisdom is the least burdensome travelling pack.
Source: (Danish)
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Wisdom rides upon the ruins of folly.
Source: (Danish)
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With law must the land be built.
Source: (Danish)
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Woe be to an evil eye.
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Woe be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser.
Source: (Danish)
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Wolves are often hidden under sheep's clothing.
Source: (Danish)
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Words once spoken cannot be wiped out with a sponge.
Source: (Danish)
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You can have no more of the fox than his skin.
Source: (Danish)
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You can have too much of a good thing.
Source: (Danish)
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You can judge a man by the company he keeps.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot drink and whistle at the same time.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot have peace longer than your neighbour chooses.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot have your cake and eat it.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot make a good archbishop out of a rogue.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot make a good hunting-horn of a pig's tail.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot pull hard with a broken rope.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot sail as you would, but as the wind blows.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot serve God and mammon.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot shear the sheep closer than the skin.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot shift an old tree without it dying.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot take a cow from a man who has none.
Source: (Danish)
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You cannot take a shirt from a naked man.
Source: (Danish)
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You may always find an opportunity in your sleeve, if you like.
Source: (Danish)
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You may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
Source: (Danish)
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You may call that your own which no one can take from you.
Source: (Danish)
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You may cook in small pots aw well as in large ones.
Source: (Danish)
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You may force a horse to the water, but you cannot make him
drink.
Source: (Danish)
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You may force a man to shut his eyes, but not to sleep.
Source: (Danish)
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You may force an ox to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
Source: (Danish)
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You may gain by fair words what may fail you by angry ones.
Source: (Danish)
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You may get something off a bone, but nothing off a stone.
Source: (Danish)
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You may light another's candle at your own without loss.
Source: (Danish)
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You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took
lightly on your conscience.
Source: (Danish)
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You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless
call for the lamb before night.
Source: (Danish)
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You may shut your doors against a thief, but not against a liar.
Source: (Danish)
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You may speak with your gold and make other tongues silent.
Source: (Danish)
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You may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.
Source: (Danish)
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You must be strong to pull a rope against a stronger.
Source: (Danish)
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You must contrive to bake with the flour you have.
Source: (Danish)
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You must have good luck to catch hares with a drum.
Source: (Danish)
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You must howl with the wolves when you are among them.
Source: (Danish)
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You must judge a maiden at the kneading trough, and not in a
dance.
Source: (Danish)
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