It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg, that another has broken his neck.

Tradizione danese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

Det er ringe Tröst for Beenbrud, at en anden har brudt Halsen.

It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg, that another has broken his neck.

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