More Russian Proverbs
They gave the naked man a shirt and he said it was too thick....
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Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it....
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As long as a child does not cry it does not matter what pleases it....
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There is a pinch of the madman in every great man...
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A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains...
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Other Proverbs
One half the world laughs at the other....
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Thrift is better than an annuity....
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Silence is golden, speech is silver....
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To a bold man fortune holds out her hand....
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Who lives will see....
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When roubles falls from heaven there is no sack, when there is a sack roubles don't fall.
- Russian Proverb
