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| Spanish Proverb - D
Dance to the tune that is played.Debts are like children; the smaller they are the more noise they make.Deceive not thy physician, confessor, or lawyer.Deeds are love, and not fine phrases.Desire beautifies what is ugly.Discover not your silent money (i.e. your hoarded money) to anybody.Do not buy a carrier's ass, or marry an innkeeper's daughter.Do not fret for news, it will grow old and you will know it.Do not lose honour through fear.Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.Do not steal a loaf from him that kneads and bakes.Do not stuff your servant with bread, and he won't ask for cheese.Do not tell your secrets behind a wall or a hedge.Do what I say well, and not what I do ill.Do what the friar says, and not what he does.Do you carry the trough, husband, and I will carry the sieve, which is as heavy as the devil.Do you want to buy cheap? Buy of a needy fool.Do you want to see a wolf with young (i.e. an insatiable plunderer)? Marry your daughter.Don't believe what you see, husband, but only what I tell you.Don't kill the man at the count's desire.Don't offer me advice; give me money.Don't offer me advice; give me money.Don't scuffle with the potter, for he makes money by the damage.Don't send away your cat for being a thief.Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.Don't stop the way of a bull or of a current of air.Drink wine upon figs.Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles. |
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