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If your friend is honey, don't lick him all


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The camel limped from its split lip
A bad workman blames his tools


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Chose the neighbour before the house
We can live without friends, but not without neighbours


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My brother and I against my cousin, My cousin and I against a stranger
Blood is thicker than water


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What is past is dead
Let bygones be bygones


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O departing one, leave behind good deeds!
A good deed is never lost


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The rope of a lie is short
The liar is sooner caught from the cripple


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Haste is the devil's work and patience is from God the Merciful
Patience is a virtue


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The son of a duck is a floater
Like father, like son


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We taught them how to beg, they raced us to the gates
to beat someone at his own game


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A beggar and he bargains!
Beggars cannot be choosers


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In the eye of his mother, a monkey is a gazelle
All her geese are swans


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With the lack of horses, we saddle the dogs!
There's nothing suitable, so they come with a useless alternative


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The eloquent cock crows from the egg
It early pricks that will be a thorn


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Patience is the key to relief


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He hit me and cried, he raced me to complain!
It's all his fault, yet he pretends to be the victim


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Stretch your legs according to your quilt
Cut your coat according to your cloth


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A bird in the hand is better than ten on the tree
A bird in the hand is worth ten in the bush


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Ask one who has experience rather than a physician
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience


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He is like a deaf man at a wedding procession
A fish out of water


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It is not every time that the clay pot survives
You cannot tempt providence and always triumph


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He who has his hand in the water is not like him who has his hand in the fire
Attitudes are formed by circumstances


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God sends almonds to those without teeth!
Good things sometimes come to those who do not deserve them


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A better one in another one
Better luck next time


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Every knot has someone to undo it
Every problem has a solution


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Keep away from trouble and sing to it
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you



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As you went, so you came back
So what else is new!


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Spend what is in your pocket, you will get more from the unknown
Spend and God will send


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Let the water melons break each other!
Let them stew in their own juice


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He married the monkey for its money, the money went and the monkey stayed a monkey
As you make your bed, so you must lie on it


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Whoever gets between the onion and its skin will get nothing but its stink
Never get between a man and his wife


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Like a snake under the hay
Like a snake in the grass


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If you buy cheap meat you'll be sorry when you come to the gravy
Beware of false economy


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When the lions are away, the hyenas play
When the cat is away, the mice will play


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Turn the pot upside down, the girl will still be like her mother
Like mother, like daughter

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When we decided to trade coffins, people decided not to die!

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Let your money be insulted but not yourself
Rather than ask favors, do the thing yourself


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Having faith in men is like having faith that water will remain in a sieve
Don't trust men!

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Let it wound your heart rather than go out and cause a scandal
Keep it to yourself if you don't want others to know


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If you want to cause him confusion, give him a choice
Make things easier by defining the right way