More Spanish Proverbs
Be not an esquire where you were a page....
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Every cask smells of the wine it contained....
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Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free...
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First come to the mill, first grind....
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A blind man's stroke, which raises a dust from beneath water....
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Other Proverbs
Despair doubles our strength....
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It is not enough to run; one must start in time....
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Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests....
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The goslings would lead the geese out to grass....
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Set your sail to the wind....
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The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.
- Spanish Proverb