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Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

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In his life he longed to eat one date, and when he died they hung a cluster of dates on his neck

A bald woman takes pride in her sister-in-law's hair

Anyone who relied on a wedding meal, would sleep without dinner

Anyone who walks on fire gets burnt

Beware of a dripping house and a chattering wife

Dog's tail placed in a press for forty years and still remain curved

Even if you found honey, don't eat it all

Haste is from the devil and patiently you will sell things

If a brother would have loved his siblings, they would not weep for their father's death

if it wasn't for eating, man would have grown diamonds

If the camel saw its hump, it would cut its neck off

If the Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty) had not blinded the gentiles, we couldn't have lived with them

If you find honey, eat it and leave a little

Many captains drown the ship

Rooster sunk in stool and calls Kukuriku

Selling the monkey and laughing at the buyer

Thanks to the oil all the merchandise is sold

The layabout has the advice

The satiated man does not cry over hunger

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