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Proverbs are always tricky to translate, and I’m stuck. In Swedish we have a saying ”Summan av lasterna är alltid konstant”. Directly translated it means The number of the vices always stays the same, meaning that if you quit one vice, another one crops up. Like starting to eat too much candy after quitting smoking. Is there any proverb in English with the same meaning?

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