He who plants fruit-trees, must not count upon the fruit.
More Dutch Proverbs:
In eating 'tis good to begin, one morsel helps the other in.Dutch
It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds.
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Bird never flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food.
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Better beg than steal.
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First a turnip, then a sheep; next a cow, and then the gallows.
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When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray.
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