To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing.
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Mother, what is marrying? Spinning, bearing children, and crying, daughter.Spanish
The hen lays upon an egg.
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One eye on the frying-pan and the other on the cat.
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In large rivers one finds big fish but one may also be drowned.
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The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.
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He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin.
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