1386 Dutch Proverbs / Page 127
- 1261. When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.
 - 1262. When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.
- 1263. When it is God's will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death.
- 1264. When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer sleep.
- 1265. When misery is highest help is nighest.
- 1266. When nought comes to aught, it does not know itself.
- 1267. When one hand washes another, both become clean.
- 1268. When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow.
- 1269. When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles.
- 1270. When the ass is too happy he begins dancing on the ice.
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