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"He that hath more smocks than shirts in a bucking

Had need be a man of good forelooking."

"Marry your son when you will, and your daughter when you can" (Spanish).ssss1

My son is my son till he's got him a wife;

My daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

This is a woman's calculation. She knows that a son-in-law will submit to her sway more tamely than a daughter-in-law.

Little pitchers have long ears.

"What the child hears at the fire is soon known at the minster" (French).ssss1

Children and fools tell truth.

And tell it when it were better left untold. "These terrible children!" (French.)ssss1

Children and fools have merry lives.

They quickly forget past sorrows, and are careless of the future.

Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they are old.

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ssss1 Fanciulli piccioli, dolor di testa; fanciulli grandi, dolor di cuore.

ssss1 Chi non ha figliuoli non sa che cosa sia amore.

ssss1 On est toujours le fils de quelqu'un; cela console.