The barrel can only yield the wine that’s in it.
More Corsican Proverbs:
A man without a woman is a tree without leaves and branches.Corsican
Every source flows to the sea.
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If it's not your time, you won't be born and you won't die.
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A pound's worth of tears will not settle a penny's worth of debt.
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Where there is a cock the chicken will not crow.
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Everyone tries to make the water flow to his mill.
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