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Whoever cultivates clay, harvests silk.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Go to Catania for beautiful silk jackets.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Frosty the snowman:

Frosty the Snowman, was a jolly happy soul,
With a corn cobbed pipe and a button nose, and two eyes made out of coal.
Frosty the Snowman, is a fairy tale they say; he was made of snow but the children know, how he came...

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From Highest Heaven I Come To Tell

From highest heaven I come to tell
The gladdest news that e'er befell;
These tidings true to you I bring,
And gladly of them say and sing.

'To you today is given a Child,
Born of a chosen virgin...

Carols

If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.

Proverbs and old sayings

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry becomes silk.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about patience, power, time

An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, Though they be clad in silk or scarlet.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

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