The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot.
More Danish Proverbs:
Fortune rarely brings good or evil singly.Danish
The water runs while the miller sleeps.
Danish
Better suffer for truth, than prosper by falsehood.
Danish
When one foot stumbles, the other is near falling.
Danish
The stone that is not in your way does not bother you.
Danish
If God give not bushelfuls, he gives spoonfuls.
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