Wise Sayings
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Advice after mischief is like medicine after death.
Category: Advice Source: Danish
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An old error has more friends than a new truth.
Category: Habit Source: Danish
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Better to ask twice than to lose your way.
Category: Practicality Source: Danish
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Don't sail out farther than you can row back.
Category: Prudence Source: Danish
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Fools are like other folks as long as they are silent.
Category: Foolishness Source: Danish
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It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood.
Category: Comparable worth Source: Danish
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Every man's friend is every man's fool.
Category: Friends Source: Danish
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Fair words won't fill the sack.
Source: Danish
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Help yourself, and God will help you.
Source: Danish
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It is a poor mouse that has but one hole.
Source: Danish
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Little fish are sweet.
Category: Food Source: Danish
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Need makes the old wife trot.
Source: Danish
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The cow does not know the value of her tail till she has lost it.
Category: Animals Source: Danish
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The cow gives good milk, but kicks over the pail.
Category: Animals Source: Danish
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A bad hair cut is two people's shame.
Source: Danish
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A bad horse eats as much as a good one.
Source: Danish
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A bad tree does not yield good apples.
Source: Danish
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A bad wife wishes her husband's heel turned homewards, and not his toe.
Source: Danish
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A barren sow is never kind to pigs.
Source: Danish
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A bird may be ever so small, it always seeks a nest of its own.
Source: Danish
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A bird never flew on one wing.
Source: Danish
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A blind pigeon may sometimes find a grain of wheat.
Source: Danish
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A bold attempt is half success.
Source: Danish
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A bold man has luck in his train.
Source: Danish
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A boor remains a boor, though he sleep on silken bolsters.
Source: Danish
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