If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound.
More Malagasy Proverbs:
Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.Malagasy
Love is just like rice -- plant it elsewhere and it grows.
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Words are like eggs: when they are hatched they have wings.
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People are like plants in the wind: they bow down and rise up again.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
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In a fight with a fool it's a wise man who quits.
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