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... Engl. : He who often thinks on death, provides for the next life. Holl. : Geen wijsheid was er doit zoo ... ... zufiel. Engl. : Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell down. ( Bohn II, 22. ...

... staht. Engl. : Better spare at the brim than at the bottom. – It is too late to ... ... . ) Engl. : What the good-wife spares, the cat eats. ( Gaal, 1421; ... ... niggardly and too self-denying for the sake of his heir, is next to a fool. It ...