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A beggar's estate lies in all lands.
Source: (Dutch)
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A beggar's hand is a bottomless basket.
Source: (Dutch)
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A blind man may sometimes shoot a crow.
Source: (Dutch)
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A brilliant daughter make a brittle wife.
Source: (Dutch)
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A cat that meweth much catcheth but few mice.
Source: (Dutch)
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A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
Source: (Dutch)
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A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year.
Source: (Dutch)
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A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen.
Source: (Dutch)
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A dog with a bone knows no friends.
Source: (Dutch)
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A flying crow always catches something.
Source: (Dutch)
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
Source: (Dutch)
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A fool may chance to say a wise thing.
Source: (Dutch)
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A fool may give a wise man counsel.
Source: (Dutch)
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A fool may meet with good fortune, but the wise only profits by
it.
Source: (Dutch)
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A friend at one's back is a safe bridge.
Source: (Dutch)
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A friend is better than money in the purse.
Source: (Dutch)
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A friend's dinner is soon dressed.
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A good fire makes a quick cook.
Source: (Dutch)
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A good friend is better than silver and gold.
Source: (Dutch)
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A good horse is worth his fodder.
Source: (Dutch)
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A good name is better than oil (i.e. riches).
Source: (Dutch)
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A great book is a great evil.
Source: (Dutch)
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A guest, like a fish, stinks the third day.
Source: (Dutch)
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A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
Source: (Dutch)
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Source: (Dutch)
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A handful of trade, a handful of gold.
Source: (Dutch)
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A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains.
Source: (Dutch)
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A horse may stumble, though he has four feet.
Source: (Dutch)
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A house full of daughters is a cellar full of sour beer.
Source: (Dutch)
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A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are
three hundred thieves.
Source: (Dutch)
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A hundred men can make an encampment, but it requires a woman to
make a home.
Source: (Dutch)
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A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt.
Source: (Dutch)
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A liar must have a good memory.
Source: (Dutch)
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
Source: (Dutch)
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A liar should have a good memory.
Source: (Dutch)
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A little pot boils easily.
Source: (Dutch)
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A little pot is soon hot.
Source: (Dutch)
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A man in not known till he cometh to honour.
Source: (Dutch)
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A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows.
Source: (Dutch)
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A man overboard, a mouth the less.
Source: (Dutch)
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A man without money is like a ship without sails.
Source: (Dutch)
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A merry host makes merry guests.
Source: (Dutch)
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A penny spared is better than a florin gained.
Source: (Dutch)
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A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
Source: (Dutch)
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A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all
mere glass.
Source: (Dutch)
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A plough that worketh, shines; but still water stinks.
Source: (Dutch)
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A runaway monk never speaks well of his convent.
Source: (Dutch)
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A sad bride makes a glad wife.
Source: (Dutch)
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A scabby head fears the comb.
Source: (Dutch)
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A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.
Source: (Dutch)
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