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Set a peasant on horseback, and he forgets both God and man.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about peasantry, god, man

When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about peasantry, wealth

Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about peasantry, force, police, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about peasantry, time

An upstanding peasant is bigger than a nobleman on his knees.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about peasantry

The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.

Proverbs and old sayings German

There is no occasion for priests to marry, while peasants have wives.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Cheese, pears and bread, is not the food of peasants.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about food

The gallows is not made for the rich, but for the head of the peasant.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about peasantry, wealth, heads

May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

What child is this:

What Child is this,
Who laid to rest On Mary's lap is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?

This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing:...

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Good king wenceslas:

Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay around about,
Deep and crisp and even;

Brightly shone the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,...

Carols

Here Is Joy For Every Age

Here is joy for every age,
Every generation;
Prince and peasant, chief and sage,
Every tongue and nation:
Every tongue and nation,
Every rank and station
Hath today salvation,
Alle Alleluia.

When the...

Carols

The noblemen's quarrels can be read on the backs of the peasants.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

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