Mischief comes soon enough.
More Danish Proverbs:
If there are no nightingales one must settle for owls.Danish
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
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Hope is an egg, of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.
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Better a salt herring on your own table, than a fresh pike on another man's.
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Luck is better than a hundred marks.
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An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.
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