A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all mere glass.

Tradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

Een huis van leem, een paard van gras, een vriend van mond, ’t is al maar glas.

A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all mere glass.

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