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Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about joy, bad luck, day, bad, good, good luck

Onions, smoke, and a shrew, make a good man's eyes water.

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No one is so rich that he can do without a good neighbor.

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The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook.

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For a good dinner and a gentle wife you can afford to wait.

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Better is the evil known than the good which is yet to know.

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What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach.

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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

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Speak little of your ill luck, and boast not of your good luck.

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Do good to a knave, and pray God he may not do the same to thee.

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Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.

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It is not for the good of the cow when she is driven in a carriage.

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A good pilot is not known when the sea is calm and the weather fair.

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All women are good Lutherans, they would rather preach than hear mass.

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I'll go myself, and I'll see to it, are two good servants on a farm.

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He is never likely to have a good thing cheap that is afraid to ask a price.

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Chastise a good child, that it may not grow bad, and a bad one, that it may not grow worse.

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It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.

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It is easy to work with a good comb, said the devil, when he combed his mother's hair with a pitchfork.

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There are three things from which no good can be got without a beating: a walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew.

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