There’s no making a good cloak of bad cloth.
More Spanish Proverbs:
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.Spanish
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.
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The ox comes to the yoke at the call of his feeder.
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He who has no wife, is for thrashing her daily; but he that has one, takes care of her.
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There is no disinterested gift.
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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
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