Truths and roses have thorns about them.
More Spanish Proverbs:
The brain, that sows not corn, plants thistles.Spanish
It is a wise son that knows his own father.
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He is out of danger who rings the alarm-bell.
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If they say you are good, ask you self if it be true.
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Where one door shuts, another opens.
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I don't count them to you, wife, but a hog makes twelve puddings.
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