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Who wants fire, let him look for it in the ashes.
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Who wants to beat a dog, soon finds a stick.
Source: (Dutch)
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Who watches not catches not.
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Who weds a sot to get his cot, will lose the cot and keep the
sot.
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Who would regard all things complacently must wick at a great
many.
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Whoso hunteth with cats will catch nothing but rats.
Source: (Dutch)
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Whoso is tired of happy days, let him take a wife.
Source: (Dutch)
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Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the
house, and a happy life.
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Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it.
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Wise men sue for offices, and blockheads get them.
Source: (Dutch)
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Wise rats run from a falling house.
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Wishes are the echo of a lazy will.
Source: (Dutch)
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With a good name one may easily sin.
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With honour and store, what would you more.
Source: (Dutch)
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With the good we become good.
Source: (Dutch)
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Woods have ears and fields have eyes.
Source: (Dutch)
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Worldly good is ebb and flood.
Source: (Dutch)
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You never know how a cow catches a rabbit.
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You never know what you can do till you try.
Source: (Dutch)
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You've got to stare the cat down out of the tree.
Source: (Dutch)
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Young cats will mouse, young apes will louse.
Source: (Dutch)
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Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.
Source: (Dutch)
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Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young
folks to be fools.
Source: (Dutch)
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Young fools think that the old are dotards, but the old have
forgotten more than the young fools know.
Source: (Dutch)
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Young twigs may be bent, but not old trees.
Source: (Dutch)
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Your friend lends and your enemy asks payment.
Source: (Dutch)
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