The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another.

Tradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

El cordero manso mama á su madre, y á qualquiera; el bravo ni á la suya, ni á la agena.

The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another.

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