Until you have smoked out the bees, you can’t eat the honey.
More Russian Proverbs:
A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.Russian
Eternity makes room for a salty cucumber.
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In a rickety stable the cow produces no milk.
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Once you have fallen into the water, you're not scared of water any more.
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When a needle sees a dagger, she cries "O sister!"
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The fall of the leaf; is a whisper to the living.
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