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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
Source: (Dutch)
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Pull gently at a weak rope.
Source: (Dutch)
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Put not all your eggs into one basket.
Source: (Dutch)
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Put not your trust in princes.
Source: (Dutch)
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Put your hand in your conscience and see if it don't come out as
black as pitch.
Source: (Dutch)
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Rejoice in little, shun what is extreme; the ship rides safest in
a little stream.
Source: (Dutch)
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Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
Source: (Dutch)
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Rest makes rusty.
Source: (Dutch)
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Reward sweetens labour.
Source: (Dutch)
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Reynard is still Reynard, though he put on a cowl.
Source: (Dutch)
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Ride on, but look before you.
Source: (Dutch)
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Ridicule is the test of truth.
Source: (Dutch)
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Roast geese don't come flying into your mouth.
Source: (Dutch)
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Roast pigeons don't fly through the air.
Source: (Dutch)
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Roasted pigeons will not fly into one's mouth.
Source: (Dutch)
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Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
Source: (Dutch)
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Self-love is blind.
Source: (Dutch)
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Self-love nobody else's love.
Source: (Dutch)
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Set a beggar on horseback, and he don't trot, but gallops.
Source: (Dutch)
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Set thy expense according to thy trade.
Source: (Dutch)
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Shame lasts longer than poverty.
Source: (Dutch)
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She hangs out the broom (wants a husband).
Source: (Dutch)
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Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot.
Source: (Dutch)
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Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot.
Source: (Dutch)
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Silence answers much.
Source: (Dutch)
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Sloth is the beginning of vice.
Source: (Dutch)
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Small gains bring great wealth.
Source: (Dutch)
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Smoke, stench, and a troublesome wife are what drive men from
home.
Source: (Dutch)
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So got, so gone.
Source: (Dutch)
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Soft and fair goeth far.
Source: (Dutch)
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Soon fire, soon ashes.
Source: (Dutch)
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Soon grass, soon hay.
Source: (Dutch)
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Soon ripe, soon rotten; soon wise, soon foolish.
Source: (Dutch)
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Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Source: (Dutch)
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Sorrow will pay no debts.
Source: (Dutch)
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Sow not money on the sea, lest it sink.
Source: (Dutch)
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Spare at the spigot, and let out the bunghole.
Source: (Dutch)
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Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Source: (Dutch)
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Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Source: (Dutch)
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Speaking is silver, silence is gold.
Source: (Dutch)
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Starved lice bite the hardest.
Source: (Dutch)
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Stay a while, and lose a mile.
Source: (Dutch)
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Step by step one goes far.
Source: (Dutch)
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Still waters are deep.
Source: (Dutch)
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Stock-fish are made tender by much beating.
Source: (Dutch)
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Strain not your bow beyond its bent, lest it break.
Source: (Dutch)
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Stretch your legs no farther than your coverlet.
Source: (Dutch)
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Strew no roses before swine.
Source: (Dutch)
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Supple as a glove.
Source: (Dutch)
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Surfeits slay mae than swords.
Source: (Dutch)
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