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SAVE IN TIME, SO YOU WILL HAVE SOMETHING WHEN
IN NEED.
SPARE BEZEITEN, SO HAST DU IN DER NOT. {GERMAN}

Submitter comment: VARIANT OF ENGLISH SAYING "SAVE FOR A RAINY DAY."
INFORMANT HEARD THIS AS A CHILD IN REGENSBERG, GERMANY.
I HEARD THE VARIANT AS A CHILD IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 11-24-1967

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