If the young man knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done.

Tradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

Se il giovane sapesse, se il vecchio potesse, e’ non c’è cosa che non si facesse.

If the young man knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done.

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