Feuer und Wasser sind gute Diener, aber schlimme Herren.Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione tedesca · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesFire and water are good servants, but bad masters.
Tradizione tedesca · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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- Henry G. Bohn · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (1857) · GERMAN PROVERBS · paragrafo 366 · «Feuer und Wasser sind gute Diener, aber schlimme Herren.»
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Translation in the cited editionTradizione tedesca · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Translation in the cited editionTradizione tedesca · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Translation in the cited editionTradizione tedesca · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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