Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed.

Tradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

Chi pratica co’grandi, l’ultimo è a tavola, e’l primo a’strapazzi.

Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed.

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