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She who dances with the chimney sweeper will eventually end up black.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about magic, end

In the daytime do we chase the black goat.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about magic

Even black hens lay white eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about magic

A swan would die with pride only for its black feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about proudness, magic, death

By night all cats are black.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about magic, night

Out of a white egg often comes a black chick.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about magic

February fill dyke, be it black or be it white.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about magic

If pride were an art, how many doctors we should have.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about art, magic, proudness

Home, dear home, small as thou art, to me thou art a palace.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about art, magic, home

With art and knavery we live through half the year; with knavery and art we live through the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about art, magic

The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about magic, man

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about spontaneity, art, magic

Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about magic

Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a thousand.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about art, magic

Once you have been tossed by a buffalo, a black ox looks like a buffalo.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about magic, contentment

Art has no enemy except ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about ignorance, art, magic, enemies

There is a black sheep in every flock.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about magic

Nature without an effort surpasses art.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about art, magic, nature

Where art is displayed truth does not appear.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about art, magic, truth

To whiten ivory with dye is to spoil nature by art.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about art, magic, nature