The elderly, even if deaf and blind, still know a lot.
More Finnish Proverbs:
Water is the oldest medicine.Finnish
In a trade someone always loses.
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No matter how misbehaved a child, the parents will accept.
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Life is uncertain so eat your desert first.
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When a man remembers the land, the land remembers him.
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You are not a man until you have plowed a field.
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