Cream doesn’t rise to the top, it works its way up.
More Dutch Proverbs:
Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch.Dutch
After honour and state follow envy and hate.
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The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats.
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A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife.
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As you began the dance you may pay the piper.
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Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
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