Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
More Danish Proverbs:
Take advice of a red-bearded man, and be gone.Danish
That which has been eaten out of the pot cannot be put into the dish.
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A clean hand moves freely through the land.
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Treachery and slander are long lived.
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When the helm is gone the ship will soon be wrecked.
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Gold is gold, though it be in a rogue's purse.
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