You may boast to strangers, but tell the truth to your own people.
More Croatian Proverbs:
To follow everyone is wrong, to follow no one is worse.Croatian
The devil can make a pot but he can't make a lid.
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Better a bad harvest than a bad neighbor.
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Feed your horse as a friend, mount him as an enemy.
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Much more than you have sown will grow in your garden.
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The starving man will never burn his bread.
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