The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.

Tradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

Donna che dona di rado è buona; donna che piglia è nell’ altrui artiglia.

The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.

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