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Proverb from Spain

Spanish

Más vale pájaro en mano que buitre volando.

“A bird in the hand is worth more than a vulture flying.”

Meaning

Something small that you already have is worth more than something bigger you may never get. Sancho Panza says it to urge Don Quixote to take the sure reward on offer rather than wait for an uncertain one.

Source

Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Part I (1605), chapter XXXI, 1905 edition, on Spanish Wikisource

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