Greet everyone cordially when you don’t know who your in-laws are going to be.
More Malagasy Proverbs:
One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement.Malagasy
Words are like newly hatched eggs: they already have wings.
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Don't help a bull out of a ditch, for when he's out he'll butt you.
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Do not be like a miser who saves for those who will bury him.
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Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them.
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