Either you sink or you swim.
More Spanish Proverbs:
Do you want to see a wolf with young (i.e. an insatiable plunderer)? Marry your daughter.Spanish
The dead open the eyes of the living.
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Go to bed supperless and you will wake without debt.
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He who pledges or promises runs in debt.
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Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent.
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He who sows brambles reaps thorns.
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