Don’t praise your wife before a year.
More Malagasy Proverbs:
When you treat someone like a wild cat, he will steal your chickens.Malagasy
It is better to refuse than to accept and not to go.
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Done in by his own trade like a water merchant in the rain.
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May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together.
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Be like the mouth and the hand: when the hand is hurt the mouth blows on it, when the mouth is hurt the hand rubs it.
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Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows.
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