One quill is better in the hand than seven geese upon the strand.
More Dutch Proverbs:
A good name is better than oil.Dutch
No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases.
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Set a beggar on horseback, and he don't trot, but gallops.
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When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter.
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Every man his own is not too much.
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He has seen the wolf.
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