
ProverbWisdom
English origin
Credit lost is a Venice glass broken.
Meaning: Once trust in your reliability shatters, it cannot be perfectly restored, only roughly mended.
Origin: Recorded in A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, an undated collection published in London by Whittaker & Co. around 1880 and credited to Thomas Preston. Its earlier history hasn't been traced.
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