When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs.
More Rwandan Proverbs:
Help from abroad always comes when the rain has stopped.Rwandan
You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
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Hens keep quiet when the cock is around.
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You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
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When the leopard is away, his cubs are eaten.
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You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.
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