There come just as many calf-skins as cow-skins to market.
More German Proverbs:
When the wine runs to waste in the cellar, he mends the cask.German
A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins.
German
All wooers are rich, and all captives poor.
German
Money taken, freedom forsaken.
German
The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long.
German
Nothing so bad as not to be good for something.
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