Better lie than gossip.
More Indian Proverbs:
What does the blind man know of the beauty of the tulip?Indian
I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.
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After eating nine hundred rats, the cat is now going on a pilgrimage.
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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
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You can never enter the same river twice.
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No sin is hidden to the soul.
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