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Fields have eyes and woods have ears.
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Fine linen often conceals scabby skin.
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Fine words butter no parsnips.
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Fine words without deeds go not far.
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Fingers were made before forks.
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Fire and straw soon make a flame.
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Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.
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Fish and guests smell at three days old.
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Fish and guests stink after three days.
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Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it.
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Flowers are the pledges of fruit.
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Follow the customs, or fly the country.
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For a good dinner and a gentle wife you can afford to wait.
Source: (Danish)
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Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite
her in.
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Fortune rarely brings good or evil singly.
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From children you must expect childish acts.
Source: (Danish)
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From clogs to clogs is only three generations.
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From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor
smaller.
Source: (Danish)
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Gifts make friendship lasting.
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Gifts should be handed, not thrown.
Source: (Danish)
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Give a pig when it grunts, and a child when it cries, and you
will have a fine pig, and a bad child.
Source: (Danish)
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Give a rogue an inch, and he will take an ell.
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Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the devil's gold ring.
Source: (Danish)
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Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you
will have a fine pig and a bad child.
Source: (Danish)
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Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for
yourself.
Source: (Danish)
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God comes at last, when we think he is farthest off.
Source: (Danish)
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God cometh with leaden feet, but striketh with iron hands.
Source: (Danish)
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God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their
nests.
Source: (Danish)
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God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the
nest.
Source: (Danish)
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God gives little folks small gifts.
Source: (Danish)
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God gives the will, necessity gives the law.
Source: (Danish)
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God help the sheep when the wolf is judge.
Source: (Danish)
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God never sends mouths but he sends meat.
Source: (Danish)
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God permits the wicked; but not for ever.
Source: (Danish)
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God sends men cold according to their clothes.
Source: (Danish)
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Gold is gold, though it be in a rogue's purse.
Source: (Danish)
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Gold is proved in the fire, friendship in need.
Source: (Danish)
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Good corn is not reaped from a bad field.
Source: (Danish)
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Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it be not taken in
time.
Source: (Danish)
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Good counsel will not rot, if it be got in dry.
Source: (Danish)
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Good never comes too often.
Source: (Danish)
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Govern a horse with a bit, and a shrew with a stick.
Source: (Danish)
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Great lords have long hands, but they do not reach to heaven.
Source: (Danish)
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Great lords will have much, and poor folk can give but little.
Source: (Danish)
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Grey hairs are death's blossoms.
Source: (Danish)
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Had it not been for an if, the old woman would have bitten a
wolf.
Source: (Danish)
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Hair by hair and the head gets bald.
Source: (Danish)
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Hair does not grow faster by being pulled.
Source: (Danish)
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Hang the young thief, and the old one will not steal.
Source: (Danish)
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Happy he who can take warning from the mishaps of others.
Source: (Danish)
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