An inch too short is as bad as a yard.
More Dutch Proverbs:
Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.Dutch
Old foxes are hard to catch.
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An ape's an ape, though he wear a gold ring.
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In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable.
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In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable.
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He who is surety for another, pays for him.
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