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A blade won't cut another blade; a cheat won't cheat another
cheat.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A bleating sheep loses a bite.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A cat may go to a monastery, but she still remains a cat.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A fool is thirsty in the midst of water.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity
teach him.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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Evil gotten, evil spent.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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Move your neck according to the music.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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Sitting is being crippled.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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The cattle is as good as the pasture in which it grazes.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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The coward sweats in water.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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The frog wanted to be as big as the elephant, and burst.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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The witness of a rat is another rat.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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What one hopes for is always better than what one has.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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When one is prepared, difficulties do not come.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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You cannot build a house for last year's summer.
Source: (Ethiopian)
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