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The opportunity makes the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about chance, thieves

The thief becomes the gallows well.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves

The accomplice is as bad as the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves, bad luck, bad

The thief thinks that all are like himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves

Never mention a rope in the house of a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves, home, house

Thief who steals thief has one hundred years of pardon.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves

The thief who steals another one is forgiven for 100 years.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves

The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves

Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about thieves

The thief who isn't caught is an honest salesman.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about thieves

The master is the one who turns the servant into a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about thieves

Save a thief from the gallows and he will help to hang you.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about help, thieves

A thief's hat is burning.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about thieves

One is not a thief unless caught stealing.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about thieves

An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about thieves, wealth, man, old, olderness

The thief has a chicken's heart -- he sleeps in fear.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about thieves, fear, heart

The thief makes perhaps one mistake; those he stole from made a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about mistake, thieves

A tratler is worse then a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

There is na thief without a Resetter.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

It is as meet as a thief for the widdie.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves