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It is well to have clean bread in one's wallet.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He must have clean fingers who would blow another's nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Don't throw away dirty water before you have more clean water.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water

When one hand washes another, both become clean.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A new broomsweeps clean.

Proverbs and old sayings English

God looks to clean hands, not to full ones.

Proverbs and old sayings English about god

The other side of the road always looks cleanest.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Keeping yourself and your food clean, you'll get more from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about food

A hungry horse maketh a clean manger.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You never get clean flour from a coal sack.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He that would keep his house clean must not let priest or pigeon into it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

He that wants to keep his house clean must not let priest or pigeon into it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

If a child's hands are clean, he can eat with elders.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

Blood vessels are not cleaned with blood.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about blood

If I am to be drowned, it shall be in clean water.

Proverbs and old sayings German about water

Don't throw away your dirty water till you have got clean.

Proverbs and old sayings German about water

A clean mouth and honest hand, will take a man through any land.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

A silk dress doesn't mean clean undergarments.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian

A crow does not louse the buffalo to clean him but to feed himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

When the hand is clean, It needs no screen.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish