Non ogni parola vuol risposta.Not every word requires an answer.
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Il fin del corsare è annegare.The end of the corsair is to drown.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgnun biasima il suo mestiere.Every one finds fault with his own trade.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIn bocca chiusa non cade pera.No pear falls into a shut mouth.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa più lunga strada è la più prossima a casa.The longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe donne sanno un punto più del diavolo.Women know a point more than the devil.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSan Francesco prima si faceva la barba per sè, poi la faceva a’ suoi frati.St. Francis shaved himself first, and then he shaved his brethren.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgni vento non scuote il noce.Every wind does not shake down the nut.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNovella trista arriva presto.Ill news comes apace.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVentura aver poco senno basta.To have luck needs little wit.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEi grida pria d’esser battuto.He cries out before he is hurt.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFa bene, e non guardare a chi.Do good, and care not to whom.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA giovane cuor tutto è giuoco.To a young heart everything is sport.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFar d’una mosca un elefante.To make an elephant of a fly.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi non arde, non accende.Who glows not burns not.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNella guerra d’amor vince chi fugge.In the war of love who flies conquers.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCasa mia, casa mia, per piccina che tu sia, tu mi sembri una badìa.Home, dear home, small as thou art, to me thou art a palace.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVien la fortuna a chi la procura.Fortune comes to him who strives for it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesI cani abbaiano a chi non conoscono.Dogs bark at those they don’t know.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDove entra il bere, se n’esce il sapere.When the wine’s in the wit’s out.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSacco rotto non tien miglio, il pover uom non va a consiglio.A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is not taken into counsel.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAncor le volpi vecchie rimangono al laccio.Even old foxes are caught in the snare.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesE un cattivo boccone quello che affoga.It’s a bad mouthful that chokes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA cader va chi troppo in alto sale.He who climbs too high is near a fall.
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