He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys do behind the altar.

Tradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

El que fué monacelo, y despues abad, sabe lo que hacen los mozos tras el altar.

He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys do behind the altar.

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