A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows.
More Dutch Proverbs:
Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth.Dutch
When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.
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The worse the wheel, the more it creaks.
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He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, and is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.
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Promises make debts, and debts make promises.
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He must gape wide who would gape against an oven.
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