Tradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Si da el cántaro en la piedra, ó la piedra en el cántaro, mal para el cántaro.Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitcher, woe be to the pitcher.
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Dicen los niños en el solejar lo que oyen á sus padres en el hogar.What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDonde fuiste paje, no seas escudero.Be not an esquire where you were a page.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien bien siembra, bien coge.He who sows well, reaps well.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay ladron sin encubridor.If there were no receiver there would be no thief
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