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• Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die.

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• Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.

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• One must talk little and listen much.

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• It’s a bad child who does not take advice.

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• It is not work that kills, but worry.

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• The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks.

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• One must talk little and listen much.

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  Tags in Talk, Mauritania, Listen

• It is not work that kills, but worry.

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• A weapon which you don’t have in your hand won’t kill a snake.

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  Tags in Weapon, Hand, Snake, Kill

• Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.

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• You must judge a man by the work of his hands.

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• A comb becomes bad when it hurts you.

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• Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.

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• Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.

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  Tags in Carrying, Confiding, Unworthy, Grain, Secret, Person

• Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.

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• He who is born a fool is never cured.

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• The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

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• Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

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• Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.

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• When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.

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