A quarter depends on cultivation.
More Icelandic Proverbs:
Character is always corrupted by prosperity.Icelandic
Cattle die, kinsmen die, and so shall you die too. But one thing I know that never dies: the fame of a dead man's deeds.
Icelandic
On thin ice everybody have the same strength.
Icelandic
Blind is a man without a book.
Icelandic
It is better to suffer in name the truth than being rewarded for lying.
Icelandic
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
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