Hänchen klein, ging allein, in die weiter Weld hinein.
Tack för det!
Thanks all for the comments! I was rather worried someone else would come up with a better "translation" while I was working on mine, but that didn't happen luckily. Incidentally, I get my quotes and proverbs from a variety of sources: some from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and others from online proverb collections.
(Use a) nail for that!
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