More Russian Proverbs
Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky....
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Many who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside....
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The lucky man's enemy dies, and the unlucky man's friend....
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If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred day...
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No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest...
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Other Proverbs
Soon enough if well enough....
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All in the way of joke the wolf goes to the ass....
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Give the devil his due....
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There is no choicer morsel than that which is stolen....
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Don't spoil the ship for a halfpenny-worth of tar....
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Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it.
- Russian Proverb