If you gently touch a nettle it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an’ as soft as silk remains.
More Indian Proverbs:
It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness.Indian
When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine.
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Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then.
Indian
Without men in the neighborhood all the women are chaste.
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If you have planted a tree you must water it too.
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Large desire is endless poverty.
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